Author guide
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Rosalind Ballaster is Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of Oxford and a Professorial Fellow in English at Mansfield College. Her research focuses on the history of narrative and performance, the eighteenth-century novel, women's writing, feminist theory, theatre, and oriental fiction. She is the author of major studies including Seductive Forms, Fabulous Orients, and Fictions of Presence, and has edited works by Jane Austen and Delarivier Manley, as well as collections and anthologies.
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Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684 to 1740
Ballaster's first major monograph and a foundational study of women's amatory fiction and the eighteenth-century novel.
Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Her latest major monograph and a broad introduction to her work on theatre, fiction, and eighteenth-century literary culture.
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Books by series
scholarly-series · complete
History of British Women's Writing
A scholarly multi-volume history of British women's writing organized by historical period.
- 4 The History of British Women's Writing, 1690–1750: Volume 4Amazon ↗
Book 4 · edited-volume · 2010
scholarly-monograph-series · ongoing
Studies in the Eighteenth Century
A scholarly monograph series on eighteenth-century literature and culture.
- 9 Fictions of Presence: Theatre and Novel in Eighteenth-Century BritainAmazon ↗
Book 9 · monograph · 2020
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Edited works (4)
Collaborations (1)
- Women's Worlds: Ideology, Femininity, and the Woman's MagazineAmazon ↗
co-authored-book · 1991