Author guide
Ros Ballaster Books in Order
Ros Ballaster is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow in English at Mansfield College. Her scholarship examines narrative, performance, feminist theory, cognition, women's writing, and the development of the eighteenth-century novel. She is the author of three monographs—Seductive Forms, Fabulous Orients, and Fictions of Presence—and has edited works by Delarivier Manley and Jane Austen, as well as collections and scholarly volumes. She was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2025.
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Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
Best introduction to Ballaster's foundational scholarship on women, sexuality, and the eighteenth-century novel.
Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England, 1662-1785
A major study of oriental fiction and the role of fantasy in eighteenth-century English literary culture.
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
The latest major monograph and a strong entry point into Ballaster's work on theatre, novels, and performance.
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Books by series
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Women in Society
A scholarly book series on women's history, culture, ideology, and representation.
- 2
Women's Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and the Woman's MagazineAmazon ↗Book 2 · co-authored-book · 1991
edited-scholarly-series · unknown
The History of British Women's Writing
A multi-volume scholarly history of British women's writing organized chronologically.
- 4 The History of British Women's Writing, 1690-1750, Volume 4Amazon ↗
Book 4 · edited-volume · 2010
publisher-series · ongoing
Studies in the Eighteenth Century
A scholarly monograph series published by Boydell Press on eighteenth-century culture and literature.
- 9 Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century BritainAmazon ↗
Book 9 · monograph · 2020
Outside the series