Elongating the Already “Long” Eighteenth Century
I entered the M.A. program at Wayne State intent on studying British literature of the Romantic period and continued into the Ph.D. program immersed instead...
Early Modern Women Writers and the Literary Mirror
Two patterns which I have noticed in reading Women Poets of the English Civil War and the poetry of Lanyer, Wroth, and Evelyn converge in...
Betwixt Two Ferns: Cavendish and Hobbes
As the editors of Women Poets of the English Civil War writing in their essay in Editing Early Modern would put it, the poetry of...
Female Authorial Shame
In my focus on studying “long eighteenth-century” women writers, especially my favorite, Frances Burney, but also Haywood, Behn, etc., and also later writers such as...
Hart/Heart in Pulter’s Emblems
Due to the early-modern spelling we have seen of “hart” for the modern-day “heart,” whenever I see this spelling I have been thinking of the...