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Paula R. Backscheider

Author of Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology

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About the Author

Paula R. Backscheider is the West Point Pepperell-Philpott Eminent Scholar in the Department of English at Auburn University.

Includes the names: Paula Backscheider, Backscheider. Paula R., Professor Paula R. Backscheider, Professor Paula R. Backscheider

Works by Paula R. Backscheider

Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology (1996) — Editor — 83 copies

Daniel Defoe: His Life (1989) 41 copies

A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century English Novel and Culture (2005) — Editor — 29 copies

Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and Social Engagement (2000) 22 copies

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (2005) 22 copies

British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology (2009) 14 copies

Moll Flanders: The Making of a Criminal Mind (1990) 11 copies

Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early Modern England (1993) 9 copies

Reflections on Biography (1999) 6 copies

Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the development of the English novel (2013) 6 copies

The intersections of the public and private spheres in early modern England (1996) 4 copies

Daniel Defoe : ambition & innovation (2014) 3 copies

Women in Wartime: Theatrical Representations in the Long Eighteenth Century (2021) 1 copy

Popular Fiction by Women 1660-1730: An Anthology by Backscheider, Paula R. Published by Oxford University Press, USA (1997) Paperback 1 copy

An annotated bibliography of twentieth-century critical studies of women and literature, 1660-1800 (1977) 1 copy

A Short Narrative of the Life and Actions of His Grace John, D. of Marlborogh 1 copy

Restoration and eighteenth-century dramatists, first series (vol.80) 0810345587 (1989) 1 copy

89: Dictionary of Literary Biography: Restoration Dramatists Third Series (1989) 1 copy

Associated Works

Players, Playwrights, Playhouses: Investigating Performance, 1660-1800 (Redefining British Theatre History) (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies

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James Russell Lowell Prize

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre (Winner – 2005)

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John J. Richetti Editor

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Aphra Behn Contributor

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Eliza Haywood Contributor

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Elizabeth Singer Rowe Contributor

Delariviere Manley Contributor

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Works: 18
Also by: 1
Members: 256
Popularity: #89,546
Rating: ½ 4.6

ISBNs: 46

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