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1	Selected Fiction and Drama of Eliza Haywood more books like this by Eliza Fowler Haywood, Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor) add to wishlist This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's entire career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, and Tobias Smollett. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing Haywood produced, the ways she treated important themes and issues, and the contributions she ... see all copies from £6.18! new only from £6.18! \| first editions
2	Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor) add to wishlist "Those of us who joined together to produce this book represent over seventy-five years of feminist scholarship. We have seen and participated in one of the most important changes in the history of literary study ...There is a special joy in writing essays like these--essays that bring an entire career's worth of learning and thinking to bear on ... see all copies from £9.29! new only from £14.31! \| first editions
3	Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor), Paula R Backsheider (Editor), John J Richetti (Editor) add to wishlist Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730 gathers together for the first time a representative selection of shorter fiction by the most successful women writers of the period, from Aphra Behn, the first important English female professional writer, to Penelope Aubin and Eliza Haywood, who with Daniel Defoe dominated prose fiction in the 1720s. The texts ... see all copies from £9.12! new only from £42.94! \| first editions
4	Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a new light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions. Rather than presenting a chronological survey, Paula R. ... see all copies from £10.50! new only from £17.25!
5	A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor), Professor Catherine Ingrassia (Editor) add to wishlist "A Companion to the Eighteenth-century Novel" furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, aesthetic, and moral contexts. It is an up-to-date resource for the study of the eighteenth-century novel. It furnishes readers with a sophisticated vision of the eighteenth-century novel in its political, ... see all copies from £24.30! new only from £24.30!
6	Daniel Defoe: His Life more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major poltiical, religious, and social controversy. Now in paperback, this biography offers an account of this remarkable life. Paula Backscheider reveals information about Defoe's secret career as a double agent, his ... see all copies from £4.68! new only from £19.52! \| first editions
7	Excursion-Pa more books like this by Frances Brooke, Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor), Hope D Cotton (Editor) add to wishlist Written for the very audience it portrays, "The Excursion" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure. see all copies from £9.56! new only from £18.16!
8	Moll Flanders : the making of a criminal mind more books like this by Paula R. Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £4.83! new only from £16.10! \| first editions
9	Daniel Defoe: Ambition & Innovation more books like this by Paula R. Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £9.26! new only from £26.02!
10	The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist The public and private spheres are conceived to be separate and complementary, useful in understanding human experience and social phenomena, gendered and perhaps "natural". Taking the usefulness of this model as a focus, these essays ask how the spheres interpenetrate. The collection looks at the varied ways this persistent model of human ... see all copies from £29.27! new only from £29.27!
11	Reflections on Biography more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist This meditation on the biographer's art emphasizes the complexities of casting a certain light on the events that occur in the course of a lifetime. She is particularly concerned to note the challenges one faces when embarking upon the writing of a biography of a female or African-American individual. see all copies from £107.16! new only from £107.16!
12	Dlb 84 Rstrn Drmtsts 2 more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £13.79! new only from £181.07!
13	Dlb 89 Restrn Drmtsts 3 more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £32.19!
14	A Being More Intense: A Study of the Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and Defoe more books like this by Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £8.05! signed copies \| first editions
15	Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England more books like this by Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist In this text, Paula Backscheider puts forward evidence of the origin of mass culture and the importance of public opinion in 17th-century England. She argues that historians and literary critics have overestimated the importance of printed texts and literacy in the formation of a politically involved and opinionated public. Backscheider looks to ... see all copies from £95.21! new only from £104.66!
16	Annot Bib 20th Cent Crit more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider, Backscheid add to wishlist see all copies from £10.82!
17	Excursion more books like this by Frances Brooke, Paula R Backscheider (Editor), Hope D Cotton (Editor) add to wishlist Written for the very audience it portrays, "The Excursion" introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes. Brooke drew upon the English courtship novel in the tradition of Elize Haywood and Henry Fielding for her novel's plot structure. see all copies from £27.95!
18 view cover	British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider (Editor), Catherine E Ingrassia (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology gathers 368 poems by 80 British women poets of the long eighteenth century. Few of these poems have been reprinted since originally published, and all are crucial to understanding fully the literary history of women writers. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia demonstrate the enormous diversity of poetry produced during ... see all copies from £25.60! new only from £25.60!
19	Dlb 80 Restorn Drmtsts 1 more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £6.08! new only from £181.07!
20	Dictionary of Literary Biography 84 Rstrn Drmtsts 2 more books like this by Professor Paula R Backscheider add to wishlist see all copies from £15.48!

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