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Women/Literature/Women’s Literature

Armstrong, Nancy. Desire and Domestic Fiction: A Political History of the Novel. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Auerbach, Nina. Communities of Women: An Idea in Fiction. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978.

Brownstein, Rachel M. Becoming a Heroine: Reading About Women in Novels. New York: Viking Press, 1982.

Copeland, Edward. Women Writing about Money: Women's Fiction in England, 1790-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Gilbert, Sandra M., and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1979.

Gonda, Caroline. Reading Daughters’ Fictions, 1709-1834: Novels and Society From Manley to Edgeworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Moers, Ellen. Literary Women. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976.

Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: British Women Novelists from Brontë to Lessing. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977.

Spacks, Patricia Meyer. The Female Imagination: A Literary and Psychological Investigation of Women's Writing. New York: Random House, 1975.

Spencer, Jane. The Rise of the Woman Novelist: From Aphra Behn to Austen. Oxford: Blackwell, 1986.

Jane Austen

Babb, Howard S. Jane Austen's Novels: The Fabric of Dialogue. Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1967.

Brown, Julia Prewitt. Jane Austen's Novels: Social Change and Literary Form. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979.

Collins, Irene. Jane Austen and the Clergy. London: Hambledon Press, 1993.

Devlin, D. D. Jane Austen and Education. London : Macmillan, 1975.

Duckworth, Alistair. The Improvement of the Estate: A Study of Jane Austen’s Novels. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1971.

Dussinger, John A. In the Pride of the Moment: Encounters in Jane Austen's World. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1990.

Evans, Mary. Jane Austen and the State. London: Tavistock Publications, 1987.

Fergus, Jan S. Jane Austen and the Didactic Novel: Northanger Abbey, Sense and sensibility, and Pride and prejudice. London: Macmillan, 1983.

Gay, Penny. Jane Austen and the Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Harris, Jocelyn. Jane Austen's Art of Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Horwitz. Barbara J. Jane Austen and the Question of Women's Education. New York : P. Lang, 1991.

Kirkham, Margaret. Jane Austen, Feminism, and Fiction. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1983.

Koppel, Gene. The Religious Dimension in Jane Austen's Novels. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1988.

Kroeber, Karl. Styles in Fictional Structure: The Art of Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and George Eliot. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1971.

Lynch, Deidre, ed. Janeites: Austen's Disciples and Devotees. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.

MacDonagh, Oliver. Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.

Monaghan, David. Jane Austen: Structure and Social Vision. London: Macmillan, 1980.

Morgan, Susan. In the Meantime: Character and Perception in Jane Austen's Fiction. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980.

Page, Norman. The Language of Jane Austen. Oxford : Blackwell, 1972.

Phillipps, K. C. Jane Austen's English. London: Deutsch, 1970.

Roberts, Warren. Jane Austen and the French Revolution. London: Macmillan, 1979.

Sales, Roger. Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England. London and New York: Routledge, 1994.

Smith, LeRoy W.  Jane Austen and the Drama of Woman. London: Macmillan, 1983.

Stewart, Maija A. Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions: Jane Austen's Novels in Eighteenth-Century Contexts. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1993.

Sulloway, Alison. Jane Austen and the Province of Womanhood. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989.

Tanner, Tony. Jane Austen. London: Macmillan, 1986.

Thompson, James. Between Self and World: The Novels of Jane Austen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1988.

Troost, Linda, and Sayre Greenfield, eds. Jane Austen in Hollywood. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1998.

Wiltshire, John. Jane Austen and the Body. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

For a good biography of Austen see:

 Le Faye, Deirdre. Jane Austen: A Family Record. London: British Library, 1989.

And for her online edition of Austen’s letters, see:

http://www.pemberley.com/janeinfo/brablets.html

Frances Burney and Evelina

Bloom, Harold. Fanny Burney’s Evelina. New York: Chelsea House, 1988.

Doody, Margaret Ann. Frances Burney: The Life in the Works. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Epstein, Julia. The Iron Pen: Frances Burney and the Politics of Women’s Writing. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.

Fizer, Irene. “The Name of the Daughter: Identity and Incest in Evelina.” In Refiguring the Father: New Feminist Readings of Patriarchy. Ed. Patricia Yaeger and Beth Kowaleski-Wallace. Carbondale: University of Illinois Press, 1989. 78-107.

Greenfield, Susan C. “‘Oh Dear Resemblance of Thy Murdered Mother’: Female Authorship in Evelina.” Eighteenth-Century Fiction 3 (1991): 301-20.

Straub, Kristina. Divided Fictions. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1987.

Yeazell, Ruth Bernard. “Evelina’s Self-Effacing.” In Fictions of Modesty: Women and Courtship in the English Novel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Zonitch, Barbara. Familiar Violence: Gender and Social Upheaval in the Novels of Frances Burney. Newark, DE: University of Delaware Press, 1997.

Maria Edgeworth and Belinda

Atkinson, Colin B., and Jo Atkinson. “Maria Edgeworth, Belinda, and Women’s Rights.” Eire-Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 19.4 (1984): 94-118.

Dunne, Tom. Maria Edgeworth and the Colonial Mind. Dublin: National University of Ireland, University College, 1984.

Egenolf, Susan B. The Art of Political Fiction in Hamilton, Edgeworth, and Owenson. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2009.

Hawthorne, Mark D. Doubt and Dogma in Maria Edgeworth. Gainesvill: University of Florida Press, 1967

Kaufman, Heidi, and Chris Fauske, ed. An Uncomfortable Authority: Maria Edgeworth and her Contexts. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2004.

Nash, Julie, ed. New Essays on Maria Edgeworth. Aldershot, Hants: Ashgate, 2006.

________. Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate, 2007.

Ó Gallchoir, Clíona. Maria Edgeworth: Women, Enlightenment and Nation. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2005.

Topliss, Ian. “Mary Wollstonecraft and Maria Edgeworth’s Modern Ladies.” Études Irlandaises 6 (1981): 13-31.

Elizabeth Inchbald and Wives as They Were/Lovers’ Vows

Bode, Christoph. “Unfit for an English stage? Inchbald’s Lovers’ Vows and Kotzebue’s Das Kind der Liebe.” European Romantic Review 16 (2005): 297-309.

O'Quinn, Daniel. “Scissors and needles: Inchbald’s Wives As They Were, Maids As They Are and the Governance of Sexual Exchange.” Theatre Journal  51 (1999): 105-25.

Lott, Anna. “Sexual politics in Elizabeth Inchbald.” Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 34 (1994): 635-48.

Jenkins, Annibel. I'll Tell You What: The life of Elizabeth Inchbald. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Conger, Syndy McMillen. “Reading Lovers’ Vows: Reading Jane Austen's Reflections on English Sense and German Sensibility.” British Women Playwrights around 1800. 15 January 2000.  http://www.etang.umontreal.ca/bwp1800/essays/conger_vows.html

Mary Wollstonecraft and The Wrongs of Woman

Brock, Marilyn. “Desire and Fear: Feminine Abjection in the Gothic Fiction of Mary Wollstonecraft.”  In From Wollstonecraft to Stoker: Essays on Gothic and Victorian Sensation Fiction. Ed. Marilyn Brock. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2009. 17-29.

Butler, Marilyn, ed. Burke Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984.

Conger, Syndy. Mary Wollstonecraft and the Language of Sensibility. London: Associated University Presses, 1994.

Hoeveler, Diane Long. “Reading the wound: Wollstonecraft’s Wrongs of Woman; or, Maria and Trauma Theory.” Studies in the Novel 31 (1999): 387-408.

Jordan, Elaine. "Criminal Conversation: Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman.” Women’s Writing 4 (1997): 221-34.

Leigh, Matthews, S. “(Un)confinements: The Madness of Motherhood in Mary Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman.” In Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley: Writing Lives. Ed. Helen Buss. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2001. 85-97.

Mellor, Anne K. Romanticism and Gender. New York and London: Routledge Press, 1993.

________. “Righting the Wrongs of Woman: Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts 19 (1996): 413–24.

________. Mothers of the Nation: Women’s Political Writing in England, 1780–1830. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000.

Rajan, Tilottama. “Framing the Corpus: Godwin's ‘editing’ of Wollstonecraft in 1798.” Studies in Romanticism 39 (2000): 511-31.

Todd, Janet. Mary Wollstonecraft: a Revolutionary Life. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 2000.

Ty, Eleanor. Unsex’d Revolutionaries: Five Women Novelists of the 1790s. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993.