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It’s all in the family (business): Divided Power and Organizational Behavior In King Lear, Act 3

Othello and the Drama of Basic Cable: A Lesson Plan

Lesson Plan for: Dividing kingdoms, people, and minds: King Lear, Act 1

Shakespeare’s Prince: A Lesson Plan for Contemplating Shape-Shifting & Authenticity in Shakespeare’s Henry IV Part 1

Fortune’s Fool: A Lesson Plan for Romeo & Juliet

Where Two Raging Fires Meet: Using Online Dating to Teach Taming of the Shrew

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From Nepal to Rochester; Or, Trekking with Jane Eyre

Less is More: Haywood’s Fantomina and Women’s Compensation for Roles of Lover and Writer

The Road to Riches Is Paved with Prudishness and Prose

The Legend of Pamela: Or, “Oh the sword! The sword!” in which Pamela Defeats Villains Equipped with Nothing but Physical Weakness and Verbal Strength

Satire as Antidote: Anti-Pamela and Shamela

Tomfoolery as Teacher: A Raucous Romp through Lusty Ladies and Treacherous Taverns Punctuated by Chance Encounters with Good Samaritans with your Host, Parson Adams

The Castle of Otranto Deconstructs Romance and Realism with the Crash of a Helmet

A Virtual Tour through The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

Book Report: The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of Inner Meaning by Deidre Shauna Lynch

The 18th Century Marriage Market as per Evelina’s Lord Orville and Sir Clement Willoughby

Eliza Haywood and Empire: Exposing Empire in the Female Spectator

Constructing and Performing Masculinity in the Novels of Richardson, Radcliffe and Austen

Character and Context in Equiano and Swift

“The Power of my Pen”: Wielding Subjectivity to Engage and Influence the Collective Experience of the Nation

Dividing the Kingdom: Non-Monarchical Perioditization of English Lit

Jealousy and Public/Private Rebellion in Leonora Sansay’s Secret History

Strictures on the Modern System of Miss Thoughtless, Miss Milner and Miss Price’s Educations

“You’re a real woman now; you’re making babies.” Homeownership, body-ownership, in Jane Austen’s Persuasion/now

Severing sex from violence in Colonial/North America: a legacy

Investigation (part 1 of 2): Untangling the mystery of Salem’s witches

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Eliza Haywood and the Art of Dedication

Haywood criticism saw a boon in the late twentieth century after feminists unearthed her. Only since about 2010, though, has her Female Spectator garnered the...

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On Kiser, Lisa. “Margery Kempe and the Animalization of Christ: Animal Cruelty in Late Medieval England.” Studies in Philology 106 (2009): 299-315

Kiser examines Christian devotional works and treatises in middle English in concert with Margery’s Book, which “appear as allegories” to show the “suffering of any...

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On “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies (2020) By Catherine Ingrassia

In the 2020 Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies article “Queering Eliza Haywood,” Catherine Ingrassia mentions Kathryn King’s “generative biography” which reads “through a culturally...

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I Labor, Therefore I Am: Labor, Series, and Asserting Existence through Essence

In “‘Calling [herself] Eleanor’: Gender Labor and Becoming a Woman in the Rykener Case,” Kadin Henningsen applies the concepts of “seriality and gender labor” to...

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Abandon Hope Ye Who Enter: Or, Who Has the Power to Enter and Emerge from Hell/History

When the writer Joanna Schroeder was driving her 11- and 14-year-old sons and their friends in the back seat of her car, and heard one...

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