Paula R. Backscheider
Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar
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Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent
Scholar, specializes in Restoration and eighteenth-century literature, feminist
criticism, and cultural studies.
The author of several books including Daniel Defoe: His Life, Spectacular
Politics, and Reflections on Biography, she has recently completed Eighteenth-Century
Women Poets and their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre, which was a co-winner of the MLA James Russell Lowell Prize. Two of her books have been selected for
the Choice Outstanding Academic Book award. She has published articles in PMLA,
Theatre Journal, ELH, and many other journals. A former president of the American
Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, she has held ACLS, NEH, and Guggenheim
Fellowships and is one of the few American members of the Institute for
Advanced Studies,
University
of Edinburgh. An
award-winning teacher, she is dedicated to discussion courses and creating an
atmosphere in which students can be themselves and feel free to take risks.
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Representative Publications:
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry: Inventing Agency, Inventing Genre, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
Revising Women: Eighteenth-Century "Women's Fiction" and
Social Engagement.
Baltimore
:
Johns Hopkins
University
Press, 2000.
(edited)
Reflections on Biography. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999.
"The Shadow of an Author: Eliza Haywood," Eighteenth-Century
Fiction 11 (October 1998): 79-102.
Popular Fiction by Women, 1660-1730: An Anthology, with John Richetti. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1997.
"'Endless Aversion Rooted in the Soul': Divorce in the 1690-1730
Theater," The Eighteenth-Century: Theory and Interpretation 37
(1996): 99-135.
Spectacular Politics: Theatrical Power and Mass Culture in Early
Modern England.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins
University Press, 1993.
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