Life and literature were inseparable in the daily lives of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin,
and Mary Shelley. In England's First Family of Writers, Julie A. Carlson demonstrates how …

Mary Wollstonecraft is a writer whose work continues to provoke scholarly debate.
Halldenius explores Wollstonecraft's political philosophy, focusing on her treatment of …

During the eighteenth century, elite women participated in the philosophical, scientific, and
political controversies that resulted in the overthrow of monarchy, the reconceptualisation of …

Perverse Romanticism examines how sexuality and aesthetics—customarily treated as
opposed concepts—were actually united in Romanticism by a common distrust of function …

I would like to acknowledge the invaluable financial support of the University of Kent for a
Colyer-Fergusson award and the British Academy for a Small Research Grant, which made …

Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740 to 1820, Rebecca
Davies's book plots the formation of a written paradigm of maternal education that …

In Genius Envy, Adrianna M. Paliyenko uncovers a forgotten history: the multiplicity and
diversity of nineteenth-century French women's poetic voices. Conservative critics of the time …

During the later eighteenth century, changes in the meaning and status of literature left
popular sentimental novels stranded on the margins of literary history. While critics no longer …

The creation of the first philosophical compendium on Mary Wollstonecraft's sources,
contexts, writing, interlocutors, and enduring relevance was a massive undertaking made …

How and to what extent did women writers shape and inform the aesthetics of Romanticism?
Were undervalued genres such as the romance, gothic fiction, the tale, and the sentimental …