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Susan Staves Professor Emerita Ph.D., University of Virginia Rabb 230 staves @ brandeis.edu 781-736-2161 |
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Research Interests
Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature and History
Selected Publications
Books in Progress
"Enlightenment Foundations of Anglo-American Rights:Theory, Rhetoric, and Ridicule"
Books
A Literary History of Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1789
2006, Cambridge University Press.
Elizabeth Griffith, The Delicate Distress
ed. Cynthia Ricciardi and Susan Staves (Lexington, Ky: University of Kentucky Press, 1997).
Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833
(Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990), 290 pp.
Players' Scepters: Fictions of Authority in the Restoration
(University of Nebraska Press, 1979), 361 pp. Selection reprinted, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, vol. 91 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2003), pp. 278-92.
Index to the Prose Writings, Irvin Ehrenpreis, William J. Kunz, Steven Hollander, and Susan Staves, vol. 14 of The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, ed. Herbert Davis (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1969).
Articles and Essays
“Women Writers ≠ Women Novelists,” forthcoming, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature.
“Jeptha’s Vow Reconsidered,” forthcoming, in Transformations: Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Religion, Texts, Cultures. Ed. Lorna Clymer. University of Toronto Press.
“The Puzzle of the Marked Body,” forthcoming, in The Cultural History of the Body, ed. Tim Hitchcock, Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.
“Tragedy,” forthcoming, Cambridge Companion to Eighteenth-Century Theatre, Cambridge University Press.
“‘Books without Which I Cannot Write’: How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?,” forthcoming, Women and Material Culture, ed. Cora Kaplin and Jennie Batchelor, Palgrave.
“George Lillo,” “Richard Sheridan,” “Anne Finch,” “Susanna Centlivre,” forthcoming, in Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature, ed. David Scott Kasten and Nancy Armstrong.
“’The Abuse of Title Pages’: Men Writing as Women,” A Concise Companion to the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, ed. Cynthia Wall. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. 162-82.
“Behn, Women, and Society,” Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn, ed. Janet Todd and Derek Hughes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. 12-28.
“’Books Without Which I Cannot Write’: How did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books they Read?,” forthcoming, Women and Material Culture, Palgrave.
"Wit, Politics, and Religion: Dryden and Gibbon," Enchanted Ground: Reimagining John Dryden, ed. Jayne Lewis and Maximillian E. Novak. Toronto: University of Toronto Press and U.C.L.A. Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2004. Pp. 147-170.
“Women and the Clergy of the Church of England,” Huntington Library Quarterly, 65, nos. 1 and 2 (2002): 81-103.
"Terminus a Quo, Terminus ad Quem: Chronological Boundaries in a Literary History," Women and Literary History: “For There She Was,” ed. Katherine Binhammer and Jeanne Wood, Newark, Del. and London: University of Delaware Press, 2003. Pp. 92-105.
"Charlotte Forman" and “Judith Cook Turner,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
“Judith Drake” and "Salons: England" Encyclopedia of the Enlightenment,#4 vols., ed. Alan Charles Kors, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 1: 365-66, 4: 10-12.
"Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility," World Literature and its Times: British and Irish Literature – Celtic Migrations to the Reform Bill, ed. Joyce Moss and Lorraine Valestuk (Detroit: Gale Group, 2001), pp. 391-402.
"Investments, Votes, and Bribes: Women Shareholders in the East India Company," in Women and Political Writing, ed. Hilda Smith (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 259-78.
"The Construction of the Public Interest in the Debates over Fox's India Bills," Prose Studies 18 (1995): 175-98. Reprinted in The Intersections of the Public and Private Spheres in Early Modern England, ed. Paula Backscheider and Timothy Dykstal (London: Frank Cass, 1996), 175-98.
"Traces of a Lost Woman," Profession (1995): 36-38.
"English Chattel Property Rules and the Construction of Personal and National Identity," Law and History Review, 12 (1994): 123-53.
"Fielding and the Comedy of Attempted Rape," in History, Gender, and Eighteenth-Century English Literature, ed. Beth Fowkes Tobin (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1994), pp. 86-112.
"French Fire, English Asbestos: Ninon de Lenclos and Elizabeth Griffith," Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century 314 (1993): 193-205.
"'The Liberty of a She-Subject of England': Rights Rhetoric and the Female Thucydides," Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature 1 (1989): 161-183.
"The Man of Mode and the Secrets of Genteel Identity," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture 19 (1989): 117-128.
"Elizabeth Griffith," Dictionary of Literary Biography 89: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists (Detroit: Gale Research, 1989), 172-180.
"Toby Shandy: Sentiment and the Soldier," Approaches to Teaching Sterne's Tristram Shandy, ed. Melvyn New (New York, Modern Language Association, 1989), pp. 80-86.
"Pope's Refinement," Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation, 29 (1988): 145-63. Reprinted in Pope, ed. Brean Hammond, Longman's Critical Reader Series (Harlow, Essex: Addison Wesley Longman, 1996).
"Separate Maintenance Contracts," Eighteenth-Century Life, 11, n.s., no. 2 (1987): 78-99.
"Revising the Pedagogy of the Traditional Scholarly Methods Course: The Brandeis Elizabeth Griffith Collective," Proceedings of the Hofstra on Women and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Frederick M. Keener and Susan E. Lorsch (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988), 255-262; reprinted, Literary Research, 12 (1987), 137-50 (pub. 1989).
"Matrimonial Discord in Fiction and in Court: the Case of Ann Masterman," in Fetter'd or Free?: Collected Essays on Eighteenth-Century Women Novelists in England, 1670-1815, ed. Cecilia Macheski and Mary Anne Schofield (Ohio University Press, 1986), pp. 169-87.
"Where is History but in Texts?: Reading the History of Marriage," in The Golden and the Brazen World: Papers in Literature and History, 1650-1800, ed. John Wallace (University of California Press, l985), pp. l25-44.
"Fatal Marriages?: Restoration Plays Embedded in Eighteenth-Century Novels," in Augustan Studies: Essays Presented to Irvin Ehrenpreis (University of Delaware Press, 1985), pp. 95-107.
"Pin Money," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, 14 (1985), 47-77.
"Douglas's Mother," in Brandeis Essays in Literature, ed. John Hazel Smith (Waltham, Massachusetts: Brandeis University, 1983), 51-68.
"A Few Kind Words for the Fop," Studies in English Literature, 22 (1982): 413-28. Reprinted in Literature Criticism from 1400 to 1800, v. 66 (2001).
"Money for Honor: Damages for Criminal Conversation," Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, ll (1982): 279-97.
"British Seduced Maidens," Eighteenth-Century Studies, 14 (1980/81), 109-34. Reprinted, Past as Prologue (AMS Press, 1995), pp. 91-114.
"Le pays où l'on pense: French-speaking travelers in England in the reign of Charles II," Exploration: A Journal of the Literature of Exploration and Travel, 8 (1980): 28-59.
"Evelina; or, Female Difficulties," Modern Philology, 73 (1976): 363-81. Reprinted, Modern Critical Interpretations: Fanny Burney's Evelina, ed. Harold Bloom (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1988), pp. 13-30. Reprinted, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, vol. 107 (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Gale Group, 2002), pp. 9-17.
"Martinez Moreno's 'Paloma,'" Texas Quarterly, 18 (1975): 49-55.
"Why was Dryden's Mr. Limberham Banned?: A Problem in Restoration Theatre History," Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Theatre Research, 13 (1974): 1-11.
"Liars and Lying in Alarcón, Corneille, and Steele," Revue de littérature comparée, 46 (1972): 514-27.
"Don Quixote in Eighteenth-Century England," Comparative Literature, 24 (1972): 193-215.
Awards
Mellon Emeritus Fellowship (2005)
Clark Professor, William Andrews Clark Library and U.C.L.A. (1989-90)
Guggenheim Fellow (1981-82)
Harvard Fellow in Law and Liberal Arts (1980)
American Council of Learned Societies Study Fellow (1980)
Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow (1966-67)
Woodrow Wilson Fellow (1963-64)
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