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Anna Letitia Barbauld

In the introduction, McCarthy announces that this volume allows one to see Barbauld (1743-1825) as she was seen in her own time–as a major author–with the result that critics need no longer focus single-mindedly on issues of gender. Accordingly, the papers collected here–which emanate from a conference on Barbauld's most important political poem, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (though only one paper focuses on that work)–engage a great range of issues: manuscript versus print publication; abolitionism and republican politics; the invention of a distinctly Unitarian rhetoric by Barbauld and her mentor, Joseph Priestley; Barbauld as editor, anthologist, critic, writer for children, utilitarian moralist, and influence on Jane Austen; Barbauld and the world of things. The contributors (among whom are many of the best critics of 18th- and early-19th-century literature, most notably Isobel Armstrong, Isobel Grundy, and Jocelyn Harris) write with a clarity and vigor that will appeal to nonspecialists and make this book genuinely useful for a broad range of readers. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.

1. Natasha Korda

Working Subjects in Early Modern English Drama

Offering readings of canonical and lesser-known plays in a broad range of genres (including history plays, comedies, travel plays and civic pageants), this title considers how early modern drama actively participated in a burgeoning, proto-capitalist economy by staging England's newly diverse workforce and exploring the subject of work itself.