Books in the The New Historicism: Studies in Cultural Poetics series

Beginning with a startling endorsement of the patristic view of Judaism - that it was a 'carnal' religion, in contrast to the spiritual vision of the Church, the author argues that rabbinic Judaism was based on a set of assumptions about the human body that were profoundly different from those of Christianity.

Exploring the careers of five influential women writers of the Restoration and eighteenth century, this book reveals the connections between the increasing prestige of female authorship, the economy of credit and debt, and the rise of the novel.