There is the primary fact that [Anne Bradstreet] was a woman poet, and we look to her
accordingly for that special point of view that belongs to the feminine sensibility and which …

In his commendatory poem included at the beginning of The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in
America, Nathaniel Ward praises Anne Brad street as" a right du Bartas Girle," but ends with …

Anne Bradstreet's early poems showcase a poet working within established tropes and
traditions to destabilize gender frameworks and posit a poetic landscape dominated by …

Bradstreet a dogmatist or a rebel? Is her relationship to Puritanism exemplary or does she
offer us one of the earliest examples of a subversive feminist voice? The first wave of …

Anne Bradstreet has come a long way since John Harvard Ellis hailed her over a century
ago as “the earliest poet of her sex in America.” Today, more justly, we view Bradstreet …

In 1923 Rebecca West used a lecture tour to the United States effectively to terminate an
extramarital relationship with HG Wells of over ten years' stand-ing. It was typical of the …

IN RECENT YEARS BOTH FEMINIST AND AFRO-AMERICAN LITERARY studies have
challenged us to consider the dynamics of self among excluded people and to question the …

In the section of his Natural History of Barbados (1750) devoted to shells, Griffith Hughes
defended the inclusion of women in his audience by stating:" I have heard several of the Fair …

Several recent studies of Anne Bradstreet's poetry reveal how the cursive formation of a
subject and its agency complicates Bradstreet'relation to her poetic precursors, such as …

Abstract" At once feminist and historical, the essays in History, Gender, and Eighteenth-
Century Literature draw on culture, history, and gender as categories of analysis to explore …