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His Life
Throughout one of English history's most tumultuous periods, Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on nearly every major political, relig...
Ambition and Innovation
In this book, Paula Backscheider considers Daniel Defoe's entire canon as related, developing, and in close dynamic relationship to the literature of ...
Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre
Co-Winner, James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-centu...
Elizabeth Singer Rowe played a pivotal role in the development of the novel during the eighteenth century. Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic T...
Written for the very audience it portrays, this novel introduces the heroine, Maria Villiers, to London's "gentle" society and its glittering pastimes...
Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century
A revelatory history of the characters that playwrights and managers created out of the real lives of women in intimate relationships with military me...
Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England
In the first reconstruction of the London street pageants staged from 1659 to 1662, she describes how Charles II used theatrical events to reimpose th...
'Hearts Resolved and Hands Prepared'
New Contexts for Eighteenth-Century British Fiction is a collection of thirteen essays honoring Professor Jerry C. Beasley, who retired from the Unive...
A Study of the Prose Works of Bunyan, Swift, and DeFoe
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The Making of a Criminal Mind
The career of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, reflects the political battles of nearly thirty years of English politics. In an age when duplicity...