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Women in Eighteenth-Century England:
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Traces a development from public, rhetorical, and masculine concepts of the esthetic to private, psychological, and feminine concepts. Necessary background reading: Barrell's
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Close readings of Montpensier, Lafayette, and Villedieu.
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---. The Rover; The Feigned Courtesan; The Lucky Chance; The
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1995.
Behrendt, Stephen C., ed. Approaches to Teaching Shelley's
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Beilin, Elaine V . Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English
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Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, and Aemilia Lanyer. Examines the restricting assumptions imposed upon women writers of the Renaissance.

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Bell, Ilona. Elizabethan Women and the Poetry of Courtship .
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Revised and expanded version of the introduction to Crook and Clemit's edition of Mary Shelley's works.
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Benson, Mary Sumner. Women in Eighteenth Century America: A
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A classic study twice reprinted (1966, 1976).
Bernier, Olivier. The Eighteenth-Century Woman . Garden City:
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Text and pictures dealing with fourteen women (Mme. de
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Bilger, Audrey. Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances
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Analyzes the feminism implicit in satiric attacks upon courtship customs, male authority figures, and conduct books.

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Blodgett, Harriet. "Capacious Hold-All": An Anthology of
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---. Centuries of Female Days: Englishwomen's Private Diaries .
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Boehrer, Bruce Thomas. "Behn's 'Disappointment' and Nashe's
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Uses unpublished manuscripts to reveal the lives of eighteenth-century women and applies these data to the analysis of fiction by Charlotte Lennox, Sarah Fielding,
Sarah Scott, Fanny Burney, Clara Reeve, Henry Fielding, and
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Brown, Laura. "Reading Race and Gender: Jonathan Swift."
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Brownstein, Rachel M. Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in
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Deals with Jane Austen and nineteenth-century novelists.
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Clarissa 's analogues: the Tested Woman Plot, the Don Juan
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Burney, Fanny. Camilla, or, A Picture of Youth . Ed. and introd.
Edward A. Bloom and Lillian D. Bloom. World's Classics.
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---. Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an Heiress . Ed. Peter Sabor and
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---. Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an Heiress . Ed. Judy Simons.
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Burns, Edward, ed. Reading Rochester . New York: St. Martin's,
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Essays dealing gender and misogyny in the works of the
Restoration's most notorious bawdy poet.
Burroughs, Catherine B. Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the
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Campbell, Jill. Natural Masques: Gender and Identity in
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Canfield, J[ohn] Douglas, and Deborah C. Payne, eds. Cultural
Readings of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English
Theater . Athens: U of Georgia P, 1995.
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Carlson, Susan. Women and Comedy: Rewriting the British
Theatrical Tradition . Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1991.
Argues that traditional comedy is sexist, incorporating strong women characters only to negate their power.
Carretta, Vincent. "Utopia Limited: Sarah Scott's Millenium Hall and The History of George Ellison ." Age of Johnson 5
(1992): 303-25.
Castle, Terry. Clarissa's Ciphers: Meaning & Disruption in
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---. The Female Thermometer: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the
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Oxford UP, 1995.
Catty, Jocelyn. Writing Rape, Writing Women in Early Modern
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Cerasano, S. P., and Marion Wynne-Davies, eds . Renaissance Drama by Women: Texts and Documents . London: Routledge, 1996.
Texts by Mary Sidney, Elizabeth Cary, Mary Wroth, Elizabeth
Brackley, Jane Cavendish. Primary source documents on women as performers, spectators, and participants in theatrical affairs.
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Charke, Charlotte. Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Charlotte
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The tumultuous life story of Colley Cibber's actress daughter.
Chedgzoy, Kate, Melanie Hansen, and Suzanne Trill, eds. Gender and Sexuality in Early Modern Writing. Pittsburgh: Duquesne
UP, 1997.
Essays dealing with Aemilia Lanier, Elizabeth Cary, Aphra
Behn, Agnes Beaumont, and others.
Cohen, Ralph. "The Reversals of Gender in 'The Rape of the
Lock.'" South Atlantic Bulletin 37.4 (1972): 54-60.
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Clark, Danielle, and Elizabeth Clarke, eds. The Double Voice:
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Clausen, Christopher. "Jane Austen Changes Her Mind ." American
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Argues that Persuasion marks a definite change in Austen's career as a novelist.
Clifford, James L. Hester Lynch Piozzi (Mrs. Thrale) . 2nd ed.
Oxford: Clarendon, 1952. Intro. Margaret Anne Doody. New
York: Columbia UP, 1987.
Copeland, Edward. Women Writing About Money: Women's Fiction in
England, 1790-1820 . Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
Copeland, Edward, and Juliet McMaster, eds. The Cambridge
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Craft-Fairchild, Catherine. Masquerade and Gender: Disguise and
Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century Fictions by Women .
University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State UP, 1993.
Creighton, Margaret, and Lisa Norling, eds . Iron Men, Wooden
Women: Gender and Seafaring in the Atlantic World, 1700-
1920 . Gender Relations in the American Experience.
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Crook, Nora, and Patricia Clemit, eds. The Novels and Selected
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Cutting-Gray, Joanne. Woman as "Nobody" and the Novels of Fanny
Burney . Gainesville: UP of Florida, 1992.
Namelessness liberates the female characters in Burney's novels, according to Cutting-Gray, by placing them in a category of Becoming rather than Being.
Daileader, Celia R. Eroticism on the Renaissance Stage:
Transcendence, Desire, and the Limits of the Visible .
Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture 30.
Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1998.
Connects sexuality and the sacred by analyzing the literal absence but symbolic presence of women on the English stage.

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Damico, Helen, and Alexandra Hennessey Olsen, eds . New Readings on Women in Old English Literature . Bloomington: Indiana
UP, 1990.
Darby, Barbara. Frances Burney, Dramatist: Gender, Performance, and the Late-Eighteenth-Century Stage . Lexington: UP of
Kentucky, 1997.
DeJean, Joan E. Tender Geographies: Women and the Origins of the
Novel in France . New York: Columbia UP, 1991.
Margaret Anne Doody describes this book as "lively, thoughtful, and deeply researched. . . . DeJean's book shows us that the standard histories of the Novel produced and believed in the twentieth century are obsolete."
Delany, Sheila. Writing Woman: Women Writers and Women in
Literature, Medieval to Modern . New York: Schocken, 1983.
D'Monté, Rebecca, and Nicole Pohl. Female Communities, 1600-
1800: Literary Visions and Cultural Realities . Basingstoke,
Eng.: Macmillan, 2000.
Donovan, Josephine. Women and the Rise of the Novel, 1405-1726 .
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Discusses women's literary traditions throughout Europe from the fifteenth century onward.
Doody, Margaret Anne. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works .
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP; Cambridge: Cambridge UP,
1988.
---. "The Law, the Page, and the Body of Woman: Murder and
Murderesses in the Age of Johnson." Age of Johnson 1
(1987): 127-60.
---. Introduction. The Female Quixote, or, The Adventures of
Arabella . By Charlotte Lennox. Ed. Margaret Dalziel. The
World's Classics. New York: Oxford UP, 1989. [page numbers?].
Douthwaite, Julia V. Exotic Women: Literary Heroines and
Cultural Strategies in Anciem Régime France . Philadelphia:
U of Pennsylvania P, 1992.
Examines the treatment of foreign women in important French literary works of the late 17th and early 18th centuries to show that literary treatments of cultural differences echoed treatments of gender differences, and that the optimism of the Enlightenment had a dark side.

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Duckworth, Alastair M. The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of
Jane Austen's Novels . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1971.
Duffy, Maureen. The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn, 1640-89 .
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Dugaw, Dilanne. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry 1650-1850 .
Cambridge: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century
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UP, 1999.
Eagleton, Terry. The Rape of Clarissa: Writing, Sexuality and
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Ellis, Kate Ferguson. The Contested Castle: Gothic Novels and the Subversion of Domestic Ideology . Urbana: U of Illinois
P, 1989.
Uses Foucault and Marxist theory to show that gothic fiction undermined the notion of a safe domestic space for women.
Ellis, Markman. The Politics of Sensibility: Race, Gender, and
Commerce in the Sentimental Novel . Cambridge Studies in
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Ellison, Julie. Delicate Subjects: Romanticism, Gender, and the
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Emerson, Kathy Lynn. Wives and Daughters: The Women of Sixteenth
Century England . Troy, NY: Whitston, 1984.
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---. Writing Women's Literary History . Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
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Farrell, Kirby, Elizabeth H. Hageman, and Arthur F. Kinney, eds.
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Favret, Mary A. Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the
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Discusses the letters of Helen Maria Williams, Jane Austen, and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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Ferguson, Moira. Animal Advocacy and Englishwomen, 1780-1900:
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Patriots, Nation, and Empire . Ann Arbor : U of Michigan P,
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---, ed. First Feminists: British Women Writers, 1578-1799 .
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---. Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial
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Women's anti-slavery writings were important in influencing the development of nineteenth-century British imperialist ideology.
Ferris, Ina. The Achievement of Literary Authority: Gender,
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1991.
Argues that Scott's Waverley novels increased the prestige of the novel form and thus helped to reduce gender-related anxieties about reading and writing novels.

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Fielding, Henry, and Sarah Fielding . The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding . Ed. Martin C. Battestin and Clive T.
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Fielding, Sarah. The Adventures of David Simple: Containing an
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Foster, Frances Smith. Written by Herself: Literary Production by African American Women, 1746-1892 . Bloomington: Indiana
UP, 1993.
Studies the appropriation of European and American literary traditions by African-American women. Focuses on the difficulty African-American women faced in being accepted as authors; the phrase "written by herself" was often attached to titles in confirmation of authorship.
Franceschina, John, ed. Sisters of Gore: Seven Gothic Melodramas by British Women, 1790-1843 . New York: Garland, 1997.
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Fritz, Paul, and Richard Morton, eds. Woman in the 18th Century, and Other Essays . McMaster Univ. Assoc. for 18th Century
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Gallagher, Catherine. Nobody's Story: The Vanishing Acts of
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---. “Political Crime and Fictional Alibis: ‘The Case of
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Gard, Roger. Jane Austen's Novels: The Art of Clarity . New
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---. "Mansfield Park, Fanny Price, Flaubert and the Modern
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Garner, Shirley Nelson, and Madelon Sprengnether, eds.
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1996.
Gill, Pat. Interpreting Ladies: Women, Wit, and Morality in the
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1994.
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A study of the heroine's private space as object of violation.
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Self-Representation . Reading Women Writing. Ithaca:
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Gittings, Robert, and Jo Manton . Claire Clairmont and the
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Analyzes the creation of social space in visual arts and novels. Discusses, among other works, Jane Austen's
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Green, Katherine Sobba. The Courtship Novel, 1740-1820: A
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Green, Susan. "A Cultural Reading of Charlotte Lennox's
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Greene, Richard. Mary Leapor: A Study in Eighteenth-Century
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Greenfield, Susan C., and Carol Barash, eds. Inventing
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Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999.
Includes essays on Anne Bradstreet, Mary Wollstonecraft,
Maria Edgeworth, and Harriet Jacobs, as well as male authors
(Dryden, Richardson, and others) who dealt with issues related to maternity.
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Canon . Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1998.

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Grundy, Isobel. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu . Oxford: Oxford UP,
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---. "Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's 'Italian Memoir.'" Age of
Johnson 6 (1993): 321-46.
---. "Samuel Johnson as Patron of Women." Age of Johnson 1
(1987): 59-77.
Grundy, Isobel, and Susan Wiseman, eds . Women, Writing, History,
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Ten essays by feminist critics dealing with a broad range of literary genres.
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Guest, Harriet. "A Double Lustre: Femininity and Sociable
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Representation in the French Revolutionary Era . New
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Blends social history, literary criticism, and psychoanalysis in studying eighteenth-century representations of women.
Gwilliam, Tassie. Samuel Richardson's Fictions of Gender .
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Hagstrum, Jean H. Sex and Sensibility: Ideal and Erotic Love from Milton to Mozart . Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1980.
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Halperin, John. The Life of Jane Austen . 1984. Baltimore:
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The 1996 edition includes a new preface.
Hardwick, Elizabeth. Seduction and Betrayal: Women and
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Harris, Jocelyn. Jane Austen's Art of Memory . Cambridge:
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Harth, Erica. Cartesian Women: Versions and Subverions of
Rational Discourse in the Old Regime . Ithaca: Cornell UP,
1992.
Discusses the female disciples of Descartes ( cartesiennes ), showing that while Descartes' belief that "the mind has no sex" seemed to offer women intellectual equality, educated discourse actually remained masculine in its idioms and presuppositions.
Harvey, Elizabeth D. Ventriloquized Voices: Feminist Theory and
English Renaissance Texts . New York: Routledge, 1993.
Investigates "transvestism" or gender impersonation in texts written by men but purporting to be by women.
Haselkorn, Anne M., and Betty Travitsky, eds. The Renaissance
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U of Massachussets P, 1990.
Haywood, Eliza [Fowler]. The Injur'd Husband , or, The Mistaken
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Eighteenth-Century Novels by Women. Ed. Jerry C. Beasley.
Lexington: UP of Kentucky, 1999.
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Stewart, Maaja A. Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions: Jane
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