Women Critics 1660-1820: An Anthology

VIRGINIA WALCOTT BEAUCHAMP, retired Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, has written widely on English Renaissance writers and on women’s diaries and letters. MATTHEW BRAY has written on Charlotte Smith, Helen Maria Williams and the ideology of Romanticism. He is currently Director of Product Engineering at NISC, Baltimore, a publisher of CD-ROM bibliographic databases. SUSAN GREEN is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, where she is an editor of Genre. She has published articles on early women critics. SUSAN SNIADER LANSER is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at the University of Maryland. KATHERINE LARSEN has written on early women novelists and is currently completing a critical edition of John Dunton’s Voyage Round the World. JUDITH PASCOE is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Iowa. KATHARINE M. ROGERS, Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, is author of The Troublesome Helpmate, Feminism in Eighteenth-Century England, and Frances Burney: The World of "Female Difficulties." RUTH SALVAGGIO, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, is the author of Dryden’s Dualities and Enlightened Absence: Neoclassical Configurations of the Feminine. AMY COHEN SIMOWITZ is author of Theory of Art in the Encyclopedie. TARA GHOSHAL WALLACE is Associate Professor of English at George Washington University. She is the editor of Frances Burney’s A Busy Day and the author of Jane Austen and Narrative Authority.