Böcker av Robert C. Evans

A survey, within one volume, of the history of critical responses to LGBTQ literature from the beginning to the present day, this book explores changes in attitudes, literature and criticism over a period of two and a half thousand years. For various reasons it focuses on literature of 'the West', trying to give readers a clear sense, within a relatively short compass, not only of the development of 'queer' literature (perhaps the most encompassing of all terms) but especially of critical responses to that literature, notably during the past century and particularly the past fifty years.All in all, this book offers a roadmap to much of the excellent scholarship concerning LGBTQ literature that has arisen in the last half-century - an era of unparalleled interest in the topic and an era that has moved the topic from the distant sidelines of literary study to a place ever closer to the center of things.

Sarah Fyge Egerton (1668-1723) is an intriguing poet who wrote a great deal of poetry during a period when women poets were relatively rare. "The Female Advocate" is perhaps her most famous single work. Alongside "The Female Advocate", this volume includes Egerton's "Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral".

Jane Barker (1652-1732) is recognised as one of the most important English women writers of the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. This book reproduces her important early published volume, "Poetical Recreations".

Includes twenty short texts written by named and unnamed women in the years 1641-1700. These texts, are grouped in thematic clusters - poetry on religion, on politics, on society, on domestic/social affairs and on mourning. The poems are arranged chronologically, and the volume closes with Anne Wentworth's pamphlet "England's Spiritual Pill".

Part of a series offering works by, for and about Englishwomen of the early-modern period, this title offers three poems (1691-93). The first laments William III's temporary departure to Holland, the other two burlesques on life at Oxford University.

"The Early Modern Englishwoman" series makes available a comprehensive and focused collection of writings in English from 1500 to 1750. This volume looks at the devotional poetry of the mysterious An Collins.