Books by Paula R. (Pepperell Eminent Scholar Backscheider

Backscheider looks to archival materials, literary analysis, biographical evidence, and a configuration of cultural and feminist theories to prove her groundbreaking argument.

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) took part in and reported on many major political, religious and social controversies. This biography offers an account of Defoe's life, revealing his secret career as a double agent, his dangerous pen and his cat-and-mouse games with those who sought to control it.

Offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, casting a fresh light on the ways in which poetry was read and enjoyed, on changing poetic tastes in British culture, and on the development of many major poetic genres and traditions.