Emphasizing manuscript writings in English and their social, political, and religious contexts, the contributors to this collection challenge commonly held notions about women's writing in the early modern period, and bring to light many women whose work has not been considered before.
In this sequel to her 2000 anthology, Sanders again brings together autobiographical accounts of childhood that show women making sense of the childre..
Beard Fetish in Early Modern England: Sex, Gender, and Registers of Value uniquely focuses on representations of facial hair for early modern culture ..
'Ouida,' the pseudonym of Louise Ramé (1839-1908), was one of the most productive and widely read Victorian writers. This volume offers a radically ne..
Focusing on Tudor and Jacobean women's religious literary activities, this volume explores the complex ways in which texts, authors and patrons respon..
Focusing on six popular British girls' periodicals, Moruzi explores the debate about the shifting nature of Victorian girlhood between 1851 and 1915. ..
Offering a model for meaningful dialogue between queer and environmental studies, Azzarello's book traces a queer-environmental lineage in American Ro..
Drawing on art history, literary studies and social history, the essays in this volume explore a range of intersections between gender and constructio..
Juxtaposing life writing and romance, this study offers the first book-length exploration of the dynamic and complex relationship between the two genr..
Testing the relationship between feminist psychoanalytic theory and feminist retellings of fairy tales and myths in the 1970s and 1990s, Schanoes show..
Literature and Gender combines an introduction to and an anthology of literary texts which powerfully demonstrate the relevance of gender issues to th..
Approximate Bodies examines, in fascinating detail, the changing representation of the body in early modern drama and in the period's anatomical and g..