Paula R. Backscheider

Daniel Defoe (1992)

Biography & Autobiography

Traces the life of the eighteenth century British writer, describes his involvement in business and …

Reflections on Biography (1999)

Biography & Autobiography

Reflections on Biography, written by the author of an award-winning life of Daniel Defoe, is an invi…

Eighteenth-Century Women Poets and Their Poetry (2005)

Biography & Autobiography

This major study offers a broad view of the writing and careers of eighteenth-century women poets, c…

Women in Wartime (2021)

Literary Criticism

Women in Wartime demonstrates the startling acuity and prescience of the repertoire in responding to…

Spectacular Politics (1993)

Literary Criticism

In the first reconstruction of the London street pageants staged from 1659 to 1662, she describes ho…