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 Kiser, Lisa. “Margery Kempe and the Animalization of Christ: Animal Cruelty in Late Medieval England.” Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 299-315
Kiser examines Christian devotional works and treatises in middle English in concert with Margery’s Book, which “appear as allegories” to show the “suffering of any...
On “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2020) By Catherine Ingrassia
In the 2020 Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies article “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Catherine Ingrassia mentions Kathryn King’s “generative biography” which reads “through a culturally...
I Labor, Therefore I Am: Labor, Series, and Asserting Existence through Essence
In “‘Calling [herself] Eleanor’: Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case,” Kadin Henningsen applies the concepts of “seriality and gender labor” to...
Abandon Hope Ye Who Enter: Or, Who Has the Power to Enter and Emerge from Hell/History
When the writer Joanna Schroeder was driving her 11- and 14-year-old sons and their friends in the back seat of her car, and heard one...