Women Critics 1660-1820 An Anthology

VIRGINIA WALCOTT BEAUCHAMP, retired Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, has written widely on English Renaissance writers and on women's diaries and letters. She edited A Private War: Letters and Diaries of Madge Preston, 1862--1867 (Rutgers 1987) and is a Coordinating Editor for Vives and His "Instruction of a Christen Woman," an edition of Richard Hyrde's 1529 English translation of the work by the Spanish humanist John Luis Vives. MATTHEW BRAY recently completed a dissertation at the University of Maryland on Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and the ideology of Romanticism. He is currently Director of Product Engineering at NISC, Baltimore, a publisher of CD-ROM bibliographic databases. SUSAN GREEN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, where she is an editor of Genre. She has published articles on early women critic s and writers and is currently working on a book-length critical study of seventeenth century Englishwomen's writing entitled Thresholds of Culture: Reading Mary Wroth, Margaret Cavendish and Aphra Behn. SUSAN SNIADER LANSER is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Maryland. She is the author of The Narrative Act (Princeton, 1981), Fictions of Authority: Women Writers and Narrative Voice (Cornell, 1992), and numerous essays in publications that include Eighteenth-Century Life and Eighteenth-Century Women in the Arts. Her newest project is "Befriending the Body: The Economy of Women's Romantic Attachments in the Eighteenth Century."KATHERINE LARSEN is a Ph.D. candidate in English at the University of Maryland. She has written on early women novelists and is currently completing a critical edition of John Dunton's Voyage Round the World. Her next project is a study of the cultural constructions of domestic and commercial textile production in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Writings of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. JUDITH PASCOE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. She is completing a book on the theatricality of literary culture in the 1790s with a focus on the work of British women poets. Her essays, "Female Botanists and the Poetry of Charlotte Smith" and "Mary Robinson and the Literary Marketplace," are forthcoming in collections of essays on Romantic women writers. She is also at work on an edition of Mary Robinson's poetry. KATHARINE M. ROGERS, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, has written The Troublesome Helpmate (Washington, 1966), Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England (Illinois, 1982), and many articles on eighteenth-century women writers. Her latest book is Frances Burney: The World of "Female Difficulties" (Harvester, 1990). She has edited Meridian Anthologies of early British and American women writers and, most recently, The Meridian Anthology of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Plays by Women. RUTH SALVAGGIO, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Dryden's Dualities (1983) and Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine (1988). She teaches and publishes in the fields of eighteenth-century studies, critical theory, and cultural studies. AMY COHEN SIMOWITZ holds a Ph.D. in French from yale University and was Professor of French at the University of the District of Columbia from 1972 until 1987. She is the author of Theory of Art in the Encyclopédie, published in 1984 by UMI Press. TARA GHOSHAL WALLACE is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the editor of Frances Burney's A Busy Day (Rutgers, 1984), and the author of Jane Austen and Narrative Authority, forthcoming from Macmillan. She has written articles on Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and Samuel Johnson, and is currently writing a book on Pope, Swift, Thomson, and Johnson.Folger Collective on Early Women Critics Staff is the author of 'Women Critics 1660-1820 An Anthology', published 1996 under ISBN 9780253209634 and ISBN 0253209633.