Bøker av Felicity A. Nussbaum

Examining the elements of the tradition of antifeminist satire in the Restoration and eighteenth century, and exploring its uses, Nussbaum reveals a clearer context in which many poems of the period will be read anew.

Felicity Nussbaum, co-recipient of the American Association for 18th-Century Studies' Louis Gottschalk Prize, considers the convergence of genre, gender and class in this reassessment of autobiographical writing in England from John Bunyan to Hester Thrale.

The general category of 'woman' muddles the binaries between mother and whore, self and Other, center and periphery."-from the Introduction