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Royalist Women Writers, 1650-1689
Oxford University Press, UK 2004; US$ 124.99Looking in detail at the work of Margaret Cavendish, Katherine Philips, and Aphra Behn, Royalist Women Writers argues that their writings inaugurate a more assertive model of the Englishwoman as literary author, which is crucially enabled by their royalist affiliations. Chalmers reveals new political sub-texts in the three writers' work and shows... more...
Women's Writing in the British Atlantic World
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 29.00Explores the work of women writers in the early modern British Atlantic world. more...
Religion, Reform, and Women's Writing in Early Modern England
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 34.00An important study reclaiming the importance of women in Protestant literary culture. more...
The Practice of Quixotism
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 90.00Using postmodern theory, The Practice of Quixotism explores eighteenth-century women's texts that use quixote narratives, which typically demand that individuals purge their minds of internalized fictions to insist instead that the reality we encounter is inevitably mediated by the texts we have read. more...
The New Science and Women's Literary Discourse
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 90.00Afforded only limited access to the male-dominated sciences, many women writers nevertheless made significant contributions to intellectual culture in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Through various forms of literary discourse, women attempted to engage with scientific ideas. These women, too, were female pioneers in science, and are vitally... more...
Medieval Lyric
Wiley 2008; US$ 135.95Medieval Lyric is a colourful collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries, together with some twentieth-century American versions of them. A lively and engaging collection of lyrical poems, carols, and traditional British ballads written in between the thirteenth and... more...
Versions of Blackness
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 22.00This edition presents a new edition of Oroonoko, with unprecedentedly full and informative commentary. more...
Women?s Writing, Englishness and National and Cultural Identity
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 80.00An original mapping of women's writing in the 1940s and 1950s, this book looks at Englishness and national identity in women's writing and includes writing from Scotland, Wales, Ireland the Indian subcontinent and Africa. The authors discussed include Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Doris Lessing and Muriel Spark. more...
Blickling Concordance
Continuum International Publishing 2009; US$ 70.00This Concordance is a complete wordlist of the Blickling homiletic texts, which date from the late 10th century making them one of the earliest extant examples of prose writings in English. Each word is cited in standard dictionary form, expanded grammatically and referenced by line and page number to R. J. Kelly’s edition and translation of... more...
The Literary Protégées of the Lake Poets
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2007; US$ 110.00Dennis Low's re-evaluation of the Lake Poets as mentors begins with the controversial premise that Robert Southey, together with Wordsworth and Coleridge, nurtured the talents of many exceptional women writers. While examining the lives and works of Caroline Bowles, Maria Gowen Brooks, Sara Coleridge, and Maria Jane Jewsbury, Low also contributes... more...









