INFORMATION ORGANIZED BY TOPIC
Gender
Social Issues
Sex and Sexuality
Politics
Educational Aspects
Feminism
GENDER
Aaron, Jane. A Double Singleness: Gender and the Writings of Charles and Mary Lamb. NY: Oxford
UP, 1991.
Ball, Ralph Edward. “The Literary Production of Ann Yearsley: A Case Study of Class, Gender,
Authorship in the late 18thC.” Diss. U. of South Carolina, 1995. DAI, 56 (1996): 3134A.
Chedgzoy, Kate, Melanie Hansen and Suzanne Trill, eds. Voicing Women: Gender and Sexuality in
Early Modern Writing. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 1997.
Claridge, Laura and Elizabeth Langland, eds. Out of Bounds: Male Writers and Gender(ed) Criticism.
Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
Ellison, Julie. Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender and the Ethics of Understanding. Ithaca:
Cornell UP, 1990.
---. "Transatlantic Culture of Sensibility: Teaching Gender and Aesthetics through the Prospect."
Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
Kucich, Greg. "Staging History: Teaching Romantic Intersections of Drama, History and Gender."
Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
Levin, Susan M. "Romantic Prose and Feminine Romanticism." Prose Studies 10 (1987): 181-195.
Lootens, Tricia. "Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine 'Internal Enemies' and the Domestication
of National Identity." PMLA 109 (1994): 234-253.
Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. NY: Routledge, 1993.
Pascoe, Judith. Romantic Theatricality: Gender, Poetry and Spectatorship. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1997.
Ross, Marlon. The Contours of Masculine Desire: Romanticism and the Rise of Women's Poetry. NY:
Oxford UP, 1989.
Ruwe, Donelle R. "Gendering Subjectivity: Women Romantics in a Poetry Survey Course."
Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period.
NY: MLA, 1997.
Taylor, Irene and Gina Luria. "Gender and Genre: Women in British Literature." What Manner of
Woman: Essays on English and American Life and Literature. NY: NYU Press, 1977: 98-123.
Todd, Janet. Gender and Literary Voice. NY: Holmes and Meier, 1980.
---. Gender, Art and Death. Cambridge: Polity, 1993.
Wolfson, Susan. "'Domestic Affection' and 'the spear of Minerva': Felicia Hemans and the Dilemma of
Gender.” Re-visioning Romanticism: British Women Writers, 1776-1837. Philadelphia: U of
Pennsylvania Press, 1994: 128-166.
---. "Gendering the Soul." Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Hanover: UP of New
England, 1995: 33-68.
---. "Men, Women, and 'Fame': Teaching Felicia Hemans." Approaches to Teaching British Women
Poets of the Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
SOCIAL ISSUES
Backscheider, Paula R., ed. Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social
Engagement. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 2000.
Bowers, Toni. The Politics of Motherhood: British Writing and Culture, 1680-1760. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1996.
Burke, Tim. “Ann Yearsley and the Distribution of Genius in Early Romantic Culture.” Early
Romantics: Perspectives in British Poetry from Pope to Wordsworth. New York: St. Martin’s,
1998: 215-232.
Craciun, Adriana. "The Subject of Violence: Mary Lamb, Femme Fatale." Romanticism and Women
Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999.
Darby, Barbara. “Bondage and Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Poetry by Women.” Lumen 14 (1995):
25-36.
Eberle, Roxanne. "Tales of Truth? Amelia Opie's Antislavery Poetics." Romanticism
and Women
Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999.
Ferguson, Moira. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1834. NY:
Routledge, 1992.
Goslee, Nancy Moore. "Hemans' 'Red Indians': Reading Stereotypes.” Romanticism, Race, and
Culture 1780-1834. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1995.
Greer, Germaine. Slip-Shod Sibyls: Recognition, Rejection and the Woman Poet. London: Viking,
1995.
Harding, Anthony John. "Felicia Hemans and the Effacement of Woman." Romantic Women Writers:
Voices and Countervoices. Hanover: UP of New England, 1995: 138-149.
Hickok, Kathleen. "'Burst Are the Prison Bars': Caroline Bowles Southey and the Vicissitudes of Poetic
Reputation." Romanticism and Women Poets: Opening the Doors of Reception. Lexington: UP
of Kentucky, 1999.
Landry, Donna. The Muses of Resistance: Laboring-Class Women's Poetry in Britain, 1734-1796.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Neuman, Shirley and Glennis Stephenson, eds. Reimaging Women: Representations of
Women in
Culture. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1993.
Newey, Vincent. "The Abolition of the Slave Trade." A Handbook to English Romantics. NY: St.
Martin's, 1992: 1-4.
Richardson, Alan. "Women Poets and Colonial Discourse: Teaching More and Yearsley on the Slave
Trade." Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the Romantic Period. NY: MLA,
1997.
Scheffler, Judith. "Romantic Women Writing on Imprisonment and Prison Reform" Wordsworth Circle
19 (1988): 99-103.
SEX AND SEXUALITY
Barker-Benfield, G.J. The Culture of Sensibility: Sex and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain.
Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1992.
Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "Behn's 'Disappointment' and Nashe's 'Choise of Valentines': Pornographic
Poetry and the Influence of Anxiety."
Essays in Literature 16.2 (1989): 172-187.
Copeland, Nancy. “’Once a whore and ever?’: Whore and Virgin in The Rover and its Antecedents.”
Restoration 16 (1992): 20-27.
Hoeveler, Diane Long. Romantic Androgyny: The Women Within. University Park: Pennsylvania
State UP, 1990.
McGann, Jerome J. "Mary Robinson and the Myth of Sappho." Modern Language Quarterly 56/1
(1995): 55-76.
McCarthy, William. "'We Hoped the Woman Was Going to Appear': Repression, Desire, and Gender
in Anna Letitia Barbauld's Early Poems." Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices.
Hanover: UP of New England, 1995: 113-137.
Mellor, Anne K. "A Revolution of Female Manners." Romanticism: A Critical Reader. Oxford:
Oxford UP: 408-416.
POLITICS
Barash, Carol English Women's Poetry, 1649-1714: Politics, Community, and Linguistic Authority.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1996.
---. “The Political Origins of Anne Finch’s Poetry.” Huntington Library Quarterly 54 (1991): 327-351.
Copeland, Nancy. “’Who…Her Own Wish Deny?’: Female Conduct and Politics in Aphra Behn’s The
City Heiress.” RECTR 8.1 (Summer 1993): 27-49.
Favret, Mary A. Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics, and the Fiction of Letters. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 1993.
Kelly, Gary. Women, Writing, and Revolution: 1790-1827. Oxford: Clarendon, 1993.
Ellison, Julie. "The Politics of Fancy in the Age of Sensibility." Re-visioning Romanticism: British
Women Writers, 1776-1837. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania Press, 1994: 228-255.
Favret, Mary A. "Romantic Women's Poetry as Social Movement." Approaches to Teaching British
Women Poets of the Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
Mandell, Laura. "'Those Limbs Disjointed of Gigantic Power': Barbauld's Personifications and the
(Mis)Attribution of Political Agency." Studies in
41.
Romanticism 37 (1998): 27-
Sweet, Nanora. "History, Imperialism, and the Aesthetics of the Beautiful: Hemans and the PostNapoleonic Moment." At the Limits of Romanticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994: 170184.
Wilson, Carol Shiner. "Understanding Cultural Contexts: The Politics of Needlework in Taylor,
Barbauld, Lamb, and Wordsworth.” Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of the
Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS
Behrendt, Stephen C. and Harriet Kramer Linkin, eds. Approaches to Teaching British Women Poets of
the Romantic Period. NY: MLA, 1997.
Bizzell, Patricia. "The Teacher's Authority: Negotiating Difference in the Classroom." Changing
Classroom Practices: Resources for Literary and Cultural Studies. Urbana: NCTE, 1994: 194201.
Cole, Lucinda and Richard G. Swartz. "'Why Should I Wish for Words?': Literacy, Articulation and the
Borders of Literary Culture." At the Limits of Romanticism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1994:
143-170.
Greer, Germaine. "A Biodegradable Art: Changing Fashions in Anthologies of Women's' Poetry.”
Times Literary Supplement (June 1995a): 7-8.
---. "The Tulsa Center for the Study of Women's Literature: What We Are Doing and Why We Are
Doing It.” Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 1/1 (1982): 5-26.
Linkin, Harriet K. "Taking Stock of the British Romantics Marketplace: Teaching New Canons
through New Editions?" Nineteenth-Century Contexts 19 (1995): 111-124.
---. "The Current Canon in British Romantics Studies." College English 53
(1991): 548-570.
---. "Women and Romanticism: Reformulating Canons in the Classroom." CEA Critic 52(1990): 45-52.
FEMINISM
Armstrong, Isobel. "The Gush of the Feminine: How Can We Read Women's Poetry of the Romantic
Period?" Romantic Women Writers: Voices and Countervoices. Hanover: UP of New England,
1995: 13-32.
Atchley, Amy Margaret. “Aphra Behn and Susanna Centlivre: A Materialist-Feminist Study.” Diss.
Louisiana State U., 1995. DAI 56 (January 1996), 2489A.
Ballaster, Ros. "New Hystericism: Aphra Behn's Oroonoko: The Body, the Text, and the Feminist
Critic.” New Feminist Discourses: Critical Essays on Theories and Texts. New York:
Routledge, 1992: 283-295.
Batchelor, Rhonda. “The Rise and Fall of the Eighteenth Century’s Authentic Feminine Voice.” ECF 6
(1994): 347-368.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, eds. The Feminist Companion to
Literature in
English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. New Haven: Yale, 1990.
Browne, Alice. The Eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind. Detroit: Wayne UP, 1988.
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. NY: Routledge, 1990.
Fay, Elizabeth. A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998.
Ferguson, Moira, ed. First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799. Bloomington: Indiana UP,
1985.
Mellor, Anne K., ed. Romanticism and Feminism. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1988.