Author: Margaret J. M. Ezell

By championing the recovery of "lost" women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past, women's studies and feminist theory have effected drama...

Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her in...

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a mille...

How did academic and literary writers living in rural Britain in the 1680s establish their careers and find audiences for their work? What factors ...

This edition offers texts from Bathsua Makin and Mary More, and Robert Whitehall’s response to More’s argument. Makin describes the appropriate edu...

The Oxford English Literary History is the new century's definitive account of a rich and diverse literary heritage that stretches back for a mille...