Devoney Looser
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American literary and Jane Austen scholar
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- Bachelors English University of California, Riverside
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Devoney Kay Looser is an American literary critic and Jane Austen scholar. She is Regents Professor of English at Arizona State University, where she focuses on women's writing and the history of the novel.
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- Not My Mother's Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism (2006) (134)
- Generations: Academic Feminists In Dialogue (1997) (51)
- British women writers and the writing of history, 1670-1820 (2002) (46)
- Woodward, Kathleen, ed. Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations (1999) (25)
- Age and aging (2015) (19)
- Jane Austen and discourses of feminism (1995) (18)
- Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750–1850 (2008) (15)
- Reading History in Early Modern England (2003) (15)
- The Making of Jane Austen (2017) (14)
- Feminist Implications of the Silver Screen Austen (1998) (14)
- The Cambridge Companion to Women's Writing in the Romantic Period (2015) (14)
- Old Age and the End of Oblivion (2011) (12)
- Power Through Comics (on Lillian S. Robinson, Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes [Routledge, 2004]) (2005) (10)
- Composing as an “essentialist”?: New directions for feminist composition theories (1993) (9)
- British Women Writers, Big Data and Big Biography, 1780–1830 (2015) (8)
- Why I'm Still Writing Women's Literary History (2009) (6)
- Scolding Lady Mary Wortley Montagu?: The Problematics of Sisterhood in Feminist Criticism (1994) (5)
- "Those Historical Laurels which Once Graced My Brow are Now in Their Wane ": Catharine Macaulay's Last Years and Legacy (2003) (4)
- On Clara Tuite, Romantic Austen: Sexual Politics and the Literary Canon (4)
- (Re)Making history and philosophy: Austen's Northanger abbey (1993) (4)
- The Cult of Pride and Prejudice and Its Author (2013) (4)
- Of Safe (r) Spaces and'Right'Speech: Feminist Histories, Loyalties, Theories, and the Dangers of Critique (1995) (4)
- Jane Austen’s Afterlife, West Indian Madams, and the Literary Porter Family: Two New Letters from Charles Austen (2015) (3)
- A Very Kind Undertaking: Emma and Eighteenth-Century Feminism (2004) (3)
- The Duty of Woman by Woman: Reforming Feminism in Emma (2001) (3)
- The blues gone grey: Portraits of bluestocking women in old age (2013) (2)
- ‘What the Devil a Woman Lives for After 30’: The Late Careers of Late Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers (1999) (2)
- "I Always Take the Part of My Own Sex": Emma's Mrs. Elton and the Rights of Women (2003) (2)
- Dealing in Notions and Facts: Jane Austen and History Writing (2009) (2)
- Catharine Macaulay : The ‘Female Historian’ in Context (2010) (2)
- Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings (review) (2009) (2)
- Contributors (2005) (1)
- Review of 'Ageing, Gender and Illness in Anglophone Literature: Narrating Age in the Bildungsroman' by Heike Hartung (2018) (1)
- Introduction: A Special Issue on the Digital Turn (2013) (1)
- “Writing Women’s Literary History: Problems and Possibilities” (panelist) (2010) (1)
- Rev. of Inventing Maternity: Politics, Science, and Literature 1650–1865, edited by Susan C. Greenfield and Carol Barash (1)
- Stephanie Russo Women in Revolutionary Debate: Female Novelists from Burney to Austen (2015) (1)
- Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson ed. by David Blewett (review) (2014) (1)
- Rev. of Figuring Age: Women, Bodies, Generations, edited by Kathleen Woodward (1)
- “Review Essay: Enlightenment Women’s Voices,” [Rev. of Anna Letitia Barbauld, by William McCarthy, of The Orlando Project: A History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles (online), and of The Literary Manuscripts and Letters of Hannah More (1)
- Me and My Shadow CV (2015) (1)
- Recent Scholarship on Jane Austen (2001) (1)
- Jane Austen Camp (2019) (1)
- Introduction: Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries (2015) (1)
- Feminist Pioneers, Feminist Classics: Reflections on Age and Generation in Scholarship on Romantic-Era Women's Writings (2012) (1)
- Reading Jane Austen and Rewriting "Herstory" (1998) (1)
- The Porter Sisters, Women’s Writing, and Historical Fiction (2010) (1)
- “Her Later Works Happily Forgotten”: Rewriting Frances Burney and Old Age (2013) (1)
- Marcel’s Mysterious Albertine: The Analytics of Sexuality in Proust’s A la Recherche du Temps Perdu (1992) (1)
- Heroine of the Peripheral? Biography, Feminism, and Sylvia Plath (1993) (1)
- From the Editors (2006) (0)
- Battle Weary Feminists and Supercharged Grrls: Generational Differences and Outsider Status in Women’s Studies Administration (2002) (0)
- Rev. of Accidental Migrations: An Archaeology of Gothic Discourse, by Edward H. Jacobs (0)
- This Feminism Which Is Not One: Women, Generations, Institutions (2002) (0)
- Hester Lynch Piozzi: An Antiquity of Bath (2004) (0)
- Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender & and British Slavery, 1713-1833 (review) (2001) (0)
- History writing and antiquarianism (2015) (0)
- From the Editors (2005) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘Ithuriel,’ and the Rise of the Eighteenth-Century Author-Ghost” (2012) (0)
- Mary Wollstonecraft, “Ithuriel,” and the Rise of the Feminist Author-Ghost (2016) (0)
- (Plenary Speaker) “The Ghost of Mary Wollstonecraft” (2007) (0)
- “Essentialism,” Encyclopedia of Feminist Literary Theory, edited by Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Catharine Macaulay in Context” (2009) (0)
- Advice for Academics Facing the Two-Body Problem (2003) (0)
- Rev. of Wonder Women: Feminism and Superheroes, by Lillian S. Robinson (0)
- Author-signed copy of Dulce cor: being the poems of Ford Berêton [i.e. S. Crockett] S. R. Crockett (Samuel Rutherford), 1859-1914 (1886) (2018) (0)
- It is a truth (2016) (0)
- Another Jane: Jane Porter, Austen’s Contemporary (2005) (0)
- “Carolyn See” and “Mona Simpson,” Contemporary Novelists, edited by Susan Windisch Brown (0)
- “Jane Porter.” The Literary Encyclopedia. (0)
- Introduction (2012) (0)
- Literary Biography from Below Stairs (2009) (0)
- Bending the Clock: New Perspectives on Nineteenth-Century Ageing: A Roundtable Conversation (2021) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Sister Novelists: Jane and Anna Maria Porter” (2012) (0)
- Age Culture Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Roundtable participant) (2014) (0)
- Cambridge Companions To … (2021) (0)
- Whatever her persuasion (2017) (0)
- Review of 'Aging by the Book' by Kay Heath (2014) (0)
- Rev. of Passion and Virtue: Essays on the Novels of Samuel Richardson, edited by David Blewett (0)
- Women, Old Age, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (2007) (0)
- Book Review:Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel Lisa L. Moore (2000) (0)
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Projects in Eighteenth-Century Studies (2014) (0)
- Aggression, Confession, and the Psychiatric Profession: Agency and Voice in Recent "Woman’s Films" (1996) (0)
- (Plenary Speaker) “Burn this Letter: Private Correspondence and the Secrets of the Soul” (with George Justice) (2005) (0)
- karen chase. The Victorians and Old Age. (2010) (0)
- “Pedagogue’s Post” (teaching methods column). EC/ASECS’s East-Central Intelligencer (0)
- (Plenary Speaker) “Jane Austen and the Women’s Movement” (2013) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Creativity and the Older Woman Writer” (2011) (0)
- Jane Porter and Feminism in the 1790s (2008) (0)
- Rev. of Reading History in Early Modern England by D. R. Woolf, Journal of Modern History (0)
- Rev. of If I Had A Hammer: Women’s Work In Poetry, Fiction, and Photographs, edited by Sandra Martz (0)
- Austen Over Time (Roundtable Participant) (2013) (0)
- Fame in the Family: Jane Austen's Political Legacy (2018) (0)
- Rev. of Women, Writing, and the Public Sphere, 1700–1830, edited by Elizabeth Eger, Charlotte Grant, Clíona O’Gallchoir, and Penny Warburton (0)
- Aged Women Writers and Seduction (2006) (0)
- Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century (2011) (0)
- Print for the people : the future of archives in a digital age (2011) (0)
- (Invited Lecture, as JASNA Midwest Traveling Lecturers) “Jane Austen's Lost Letters in Context: Sisterly Protection or Literary Travesty?” (with George Justice) (2009) (0)
- Anna Laetitia Barbauld as Editor of Samuel Richardson (2004) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Restless Spirit, or, The Eighteenth-Century Author-Ghost” (2009) (0)
- Rev. of Our Times/3, edited by Robert Atwan (0)
- Age and Aging Studies (2014) (0)
- Austen's Sense and Sensibility and Lord Craven (2009) (0)
- Jane Austen and Her Contemporaries (2014) (0)
- Rev. of Mothers of the Nation: Women's Political Writing in England, 1780–1830, by Anne K. Mellor (0)
- The Great Man and Women’s Historical Fiction: The Case of Jane Porter and Sir Sidney Smith (2011) (0)
- Rev. of Aging by the Book: The Emergence of Midlife in Victorian Britain, by Kay Heath. Age, Culture, Humanities. Vol. 1 (0)
- Michael Sprinker and Feminism (2011) (0)
- Feminism and the Culture Wars (1998) (0)
- From the Editors (2007) (0)
- Rev. of Dangerous Intimacies: Toward a Sapphic History of the British Novel by Lisa L. Moore (0)
- Rev. of Jane Austen’s Business, edited by Juliet McMaster and Bruce Stovel (0)
- Admiration and Disapprobation: Jane Austen’s Emma (1816) and Jane West’s Ringrove (1827) (2019) (0)
- Jane Austen, Feminist Icon: Los Angeles Review of Books (2004) (0)
- (Keynote Speaker) “Garrulous Granddames: Hester Piozzi, Hannah More, and the Representation of Old Age” (2008) (0)
- An Old Q in the Corner: Women’s Forgotten Writings and Old Age (2013) (0)
- Rev. of Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory, by Iris Marion Young (0)
- “Recent Scholarship on Jane Austen,” (Review Essay) (0)
- Researching in Archives (Roundtable Participant) (2013) (0)
- Jane Austen: The Novelist as Historian (2007) (0)
- The Romantic Periodical and Women’s Prospects: Jane and Anna Maria Porter’s The Sentinel (2012) (0)
- Rev. of Jane Austen: Women Politics, and the Novel, by Claudia L. Johnson (0)
- The Daily Jane Austen (2019) (0)
- Rev. of Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film, by Marc DiPaolo (0)
- (Plenary Lecture) “British Women Writers and the Customs and Traditions of Aging, 1750-1850” (2013) (0)
- Rev. of Jane Austen, or, The Secret of Style, by D. A. Miller (0)
- JOCELYN HARRIS. Satire, Celebrity, and Politics in Jane Austen (2018) (0)
- Rev. of Northanger Abbey and Juvenilia from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen. Editionen in der Kritik (0)
- Austen at the Millennium JASNA News (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Jane Austen, Jane Porter, and Bath” (2008) (0)
- Editor's inscription in English Poetry, 1170-1892 (2016) (0)
- Rev. of Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender and British Slavery, 1713–1833, by Charlotte Sussman (0)
- Rev. of In the Canon’s Mouth: Dispatches from the Culture Wars, by Lillian S. Robinson (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Mary Wollstonecraft, ‘Ithuriel,’ and the Rise of the Romantic Author-Ghost” (2010) (0)
- Reading History in Early Modern England. By D. R. Woolf. Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History. Edited by, Anthony Fletcher, John Guy, and John Morrill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xvi+360. $69.95. (2003) (0)
- Jane Porter and the School of Eloquence in the 1790s (2008) (0)
- Introduction: Roundtable 3 (1997) (0)
- Jane Austen, Feminist Criticism, and the Conundrum of Marriage (2012) (0)
- “Pioneer Feminizers and the Eighteenth-Century Welcome of Female Authors” [Rev. of The Feminization Debate in Eighteenth-Century England by E. J. Clery] (0)
- After Jane Austen (2017) (0)
- “Teaching Jane Austen in Emerging Contexts” (Roundtable Presider) (2013) (0)
- Rev. of Brilliant Women: Eighteenth-Century Bluestockings (exhibit and catalogue), by Elizabeth Eger and Lucy Peltz (0)
- Unbecoming Jane Austens (2013) (0)
- Literary Biography from Below Stairs” [Rev. of Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, by Alison Light] (0)
- (Keynote Lecture) The New Woman’s Jane Austen (2013) (0)
- Rev. of The Victorians and Old Age (0)
- “Bluestocking Studies” (panelist) (2010) (0)
- The demasculinization of Emma by Jane Austen's early illustrators [abstract] (2007) (0)
- Rev. of The Decline of Life: Old Age in Eighteenth-Century England, by Susannah R. Ottaway (0)
- From the Editors (2009) (0)
- Social Authorship and the Advent of Print (review) (2004) (0)
- Emma Adapted: Jane Austen’s Heroine from Book to Film (review) (2009) (0)
- Rev. of British Women’s Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century: Authorship, Politics, and History, edited by Jennie Batchelor and Cora Kaplan. The Age of Johnson (0)
- Sister Novelists in the Age of Austen: Jane and Anna Maria Porter (2012) (0)
- If I Had A Hammer: Women's Work In Poetry, Fiction and Photographs (review) (1991) (0)
- “The Good-Enough Academic Mother at Mid-Career” (2012) (0)
- “Publishing Roundtable” (participant) (2007) (0)
- JEMCS Forum: What is Early Modern? (2013) (0)
- Old Q in the Corner: Jane West, Late Life, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2019) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Another Jane: Jane Porter, Austen’s Contemporary” (2006) (0)
- “Lillian Robinson,” The Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics. Ed. M. Keith Booker (0)
- Jane Porter’s Percival Stockdale (2011) (0)
- Touching upon Jane Austen's Politics (2021) (0)
- Rev. of Emma, by Jane Austen, from The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jane Austen (0)
- (Plenary Panel) “British Women Writers and Old Age” (2009) (0)
- Frances Burney: Memorialist (2010) (0)
- (Plenary Speaker) “‘An Elderly Lady With No Remains of Personal Beauty’: Frances Burney and Old Age” (2009) (0)
- Introduction: What's Next for Jane Austen? (2019) (0)
- Rev. of Social Authorship and the Advent of Print, by Margaret J. M. Ezell (0)
- Rev. of Not My Mother’s Sister: Generational Conflict and Third-Wave Feminism by Astrid Henry (0)
- Collaboration and Conflict in the Feminist Classroom. (1995) (0)
- Rev. of Laughing Feminism: Subversive Comedy in Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, and Jane Austen, by Audrey Bilger (0)
- Fanny Price: Jane Austen's Feminist Experiment [abstract] (2007) (0)
- From the Editors (2005) (0)
- Jane Austen and the Women's Movement (2013) (0)
- A Garrulous Granddame: Hester Lynch Piozzi's Writings in Old Age (2004) (0)
- Still) For Feminist Criticism (2009) (0)
- (Invited Lecture) “Mary Wollstonecraft, Author-Ghost: Enlightenment Origins of Modern Feminism” (2012) (0)
- The global context (2015) (0)
- “‘Eminent Literary Ladies are Longlived’: British Women Writers and Old Age, 1750–1850” (2005) (0)
- Rev. of Women’s History Writing Since the Renaissance, by Mary Spongberg (0)
- “The Problems and Pleasures of Taking Account: Twenty-First Century Biographers of Eighteenth-Century People” (roundtable participant) (2012) (0)
- (Plenary Speaker) “'Eminent Literary Ladies are Longlived': Eighteenth-Century British Women Writers and Old Age” (2006) (0)
- Jane Austen in the Twenty-First Century (2004) (0)
- Race relationships in Aphra Behn's Oroonoko [abstract] (2008) (0)
- Rev. of Invitation to the Party, by Joan Austen-Leigh (0)
- Rev. of The Hysterical Male: New Feminist Theory, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker (0)
- “Sylvia Plath,” Feminist Writers, edited by Pamela Kester-Shelton (0)
- Rev. of Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (0)
- Rev. of Women Writers and the English Nation in the 1790s: Romantic Belongings, by Angela Keane (0)
- THE GREAT MAN AND WOMEN'S HISTORICAL FICTION: JANE PORTER AND SIR SIDNEY SMITH (2012) (0)
- Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain (2010) (0)
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