On Fair Philosopher: Eliza Haywood and The Female Spectator, eds. Lynn Wright and Donald Newman. Lewisburg, Bucknell University Press, 2006.
The first sustained scholarly study of Haywood’s Female Spectator, Fair Philosopher challenges previous assumptions with essays by established and new (as of 2006) Haywood scholars....
On Girten, Kristin. “Unsexed Souls: Natural Philosophy as Transformation in Eliza Haywood’s Female Spectator Author(s).” Eighteenth-Century Studies, vol. 43, no. 1, 2009, pp. 55-74.
Girten explores Female Spectator issues in which Haywood recommends the practice of natural philosophy for women, purportedly inspired by letters from a Female Spectator reader...
Eliza Haywood and the Art of Dedication
Haywood criticism saw a boon in the late twentieth century after feminists unearthed her. Only since about 2010, though, has her Female Spectator garnered the...
On Animal Languages in the Middle Ages: Representations of Interspecies Communication, ed. Alison Langdon. New York, Palgrave, 2018
This interdisciplinary volume of 13 essays, divided into three parts (Part I Communicating Through Animals, Part II Recovering Animal Languages, and Part III Embodied Language...
On Crane, Susan. Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.
For Crane, recovering the living animal’s place within the written animal is crucial for understanding animal encounters’ impact in medieval literature. Though animals are seen...