Professor Ros

Ballaster

Professorial Fellow in English; LGBTQ Tutor

Research Interests

Seventeenth- and eighteenth-century culture, especially fiction and drama; oriental fiction; women's writing and feminist theory; ideas of cognition and character in literary and theatrical representation. Currently working on a book about the theatre and the novel in eighteenth-century England.

Publications

Major publications are Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction 1640-1740 (1992); Women's Worlds: Ideology, Femininity and the Woman's Magazine (1991); editor of Penguin Classics, Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility (1996); Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (2005 - winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay Prize from the British Academy) and an accompanying anthology Fables of the East (2005); The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750: Volume Four (History of British Women's Writing) ed. Ros Ballaster (2010).

Recent publications

“Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind”: Distributed Cognition and Women (Novelist)’s Representation of Theatre in Eighteenth-Century England’, Ballaster, R, 2019, Distributed Cognition in Enlightenment and Romantic Culture, eds. Anderson, M, Roussesau, G, Wheeler, M, 30 September 2019, Edinburgh History of Distribution , Edinburgh, pp.170 - 186.
'Dramatic satire', Ballaster, R, 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire, ed. Bullard, P. Oxford University Press, USA.
Sensible Readers: Experiments in Feeling in Early Prose Fiction by Women, Ballaster, R, 2019, in The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Rivero, A, Cambridge University Press.

Professor Ros

Research Interests

Publications

'Dramatic satire', Ballaster, R, 2019, The Oxford Handbook of Eighteenth-Century Satire, ed. Bullard, P. Oxford University Press, USA.

Sensible Readers: Experiments in Feeling in Early Prose Fiction by Women, Ballaster, R, 2019, in The Sentimental Novel in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Rivero, A, Cambridge University Press.