Women’s and Gender Studies: Literature & Gender Studies

By Pamela J. Benson

Misogyny and its opposite, philogyny, have been perennial topics in Western literature from its earliest days to the present day, but only at certain historic periods have pro-woman authors challenged fundamental negative assumptions about women by engaging in formal debate with misogynists and…

Paperback – 2019-06-12
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two

By Ian Munro

By turns witty and inane, crude and learned, scurrilous and moralistic, jestbooks offer an important and often overlooked viewpoint on the lives of women in early modern England. This volume reproduces seven jestbooks with connections to early modern Englishwomen as well as showing something of the…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works Series III, Part Two

By Robert C. Evans

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. Her career also began at an astonishingly early age: she was barely fourteen years old when one of her poems was first printed in London. Throughout much of…

Paperback – 2019-06-10
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four

Edited by Diane J. Rayor, William W. Batstone

Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry, first published almost 25 years ago, offered students accurate and poetic translations of poems from the sudden flowering of lyric and elegy in Rome at the end of the Republic and in the first decades of the Augustan principate. Now updated in this second edition,…

Paperback – 2018-10-02
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By Margaret W. Ferguson

Elizabeth Cary (c.1585-1639) was an accomplished scholar of languages and theology. Her considerable strength of character was demonstrated by her public conversion to Catholicism in 1625 thereby creating an irrevocable rift in her marriage and her family. Her biography, written by her daughter,…

Paperback – 2018-09-27
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1500-1640: Series I, Part One

Edited by Deborah Denenholz Morse, Margaret Markwick, Mark W. Turner

Bringing together leading and newly emerging scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope offers a comprehensive overview of Trollope scholarship and suggests new directions in Trollope studies. The first volume designed especially for advanced graduate students and scholars, the…

Hardback – 2016-08-17
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By Alison Light

First published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.…

Paperback – 2013-12-12
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By Jane Couchman

Edited by Allyson M. Poska

Over the past three decades scholars have transformed the study of women and gender in early modern Europe. This Ashgate Research Companion presents an authoritative review of the current research on women and gender in early modern Europe from a multi-disciplinary perspective. The authors examine…

Hardback – 2013-04-16
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By Tatiana Kontou

Edited by Sarah Willburn

Critical attention to the Victorian supernatural has flourished over the last twenty-five years. Whether it is spiritualism or Theosophy, mesmerism or the occult, the dozens of book-length studies and hundreds of articles that have appeared recently reflect the avid scholarly discussion of…

Hardback – 2012-07-28
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By Betty S. Travitsky, Anne Lake Prescott

Printed Writings 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four consists of seven volumes of writings grouped by author. The set comprises the following titles: Volume 1: Jane Barker Volume 2: Sarah Fyge Egerton Volume 3: Gertrude More Volume 4: Katherine Chidley Volume 5: Eleanor Davies, Writings 1641-1646…

Hardback – 2012-07-10
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four

Edited by Donald E. Hall, Annamarie Jagose

The Routledge Queer Studies Reader provides a comprehensive resource for students and scholars working in this vibrant and interdisciplinary field. The book traces the emergence and development of Queer Studies as a field of scholarship, presenting key critical essays alongside more recent…

Paperback – 2012-05-31
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Routledge Literature Readers

Edited by Teresa Feroli

In 1625 Lady Eleanor Davies' life took a dramatic turn when, by her account in 1641, a "Heavenly voice" told her "There is Ninteene yeares and a halfe to the day of Judgement, and you as the meek Virgin". That same year she published her first treatise, A Warning to the Dragon, initiating her…

Hardback – 2011-04-15
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The Early Modern Englishwoman: A Facsimile Library of Essential Works & Printed Writings, 1641-1700: Series II, Part Four