A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of
the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to …

Winner, 2009 Best Book Award, Society for the Study of Early Modern WomenWinner, 2008
PROSE Award for Best Book in Language, Literature, and Linguistics. Professional and …

Virginia Woolf, the Intellectual, and the Public Sphere relates Woolf's literary reviews and
essays to early twentieth-century debates about the value of'highbrow'culture, the methods …

British women writers were enormously influential in the creation of public opinion and
political ideology during the years from 1780 to 1830. Anne Mellor demonstrates the many …

Modernism and the Architecture of Private Life offers a bold new assessment of the role of
the domestic sphere in modernist literature, architecture, and design. Elegantly synthesizing …

Speculative investment and the popular novel can be seen as analogous in the early
eighteenth century in offering new forms of" paper credit"; and in both, women-who invested …

In A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf described fictions as' grossly material things', rooted
in their physical and economic contexts. This book takes Woolf's brief hint as its starting …

Incarnations of fatal women, or femmes fatales, recur throughout the works of women writers
in the Romantic period. Adriana Craciun demonstrates how portrayals of femmes fatales or …

Chosen by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Until recently, history writing
has been understood as a male enclave from which women were restricted, particularly prior …

Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty.
Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic …