Women and Literature in Britain, 1700–1800

Women and Literature in Britain, 1700-1800 is unique in providing an authoritative, up-to-date overview of eighteenth-century women's writing and its contexts. The contributors are well-known feminist literary critics, cultural historians and historians of publishing. They discuss the construction of women, and women's writing across a wide range of genres, including essays on ideas of femininity, women and race, changing family structures, women and the law, and women as publishers and as readers. This book will be an invaluable resource both for students and experts in the field.

Ros Ballaster is a Fellow in English Literature at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Clare Brant is a Lecturer at King's College London. Margaret Anne Doody is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and Professor of English at Vanderbilt University. Dianne Dugaw is a professor of English at the University of Oregon. Jan Fergus is a professor of English at Lehigh University. Isobel Grundy taught for many years at Queen Mary College, London University. Since 1990 she has been Henry Marshall Tory Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. Harriet Guest is a senior lecturer in the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York. Vivien Jones is a senior lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds. Paula Mcdowell is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. Felicity A. Nussabaum, Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. Ruth Perry is Professor of Literature at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gillian Skinner was a Visiting Associate Professor at California State University, Hayward, and she is currently a Tutor and Scholar-in-Residence at St Chad's College, University of Durham. Angela J. Smallwood lectures in eighteenth-century English literature at the University of Nottingham and held a British Academy Research Readership 1991-93 in order to work on women playwrights. Kathryn Sutherland is Reader in Bibliography and Textual Criticism and Professorial Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford.