Ruth Perry
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American literary scholar
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Ruth Perry 's Degrees
- PhD English University of California, Berkeley
- Masters English University of California, Berkeley
- Bachelors English University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Ruth Perry is an American literary scholar who works on the literary and cultural history of eighteenth-century England and Scotland. She is known especially for her work on women’s writing. She is the Ann Fetter Friedlaender Professor of the Humanities Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and past president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Ruth Perry 's Published Works
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- Novel Relations: The Transformation of Kinship in English Literature and Culture, 1748-1818 (2004) (117)
- The Celebrated Mary Astell: An Early English Feminist (1986) (91)
- Women and Computers: An Introduction (1990) (87)
- Mary Astell and the Feminist Critique of Possesive Individualism (1990) (80)
- Women Letters and the Novel (1980) (66)
- Radical Doubt and the Liberation of Women (1985) (47)
- Ten years of research (2009) (45)
- Clarissa's Daughters, or the History of Innocence Betrayed: how women writers rewrote Richardson (1994) (26)
- :The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England (2008) (25)
- Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (1986) (23)
- Novel Relations by Ruth Perry (2004) (18)
- Mary Astell's Response to the Enlightenment (1984) (18)
- de-Familiarizing the Family; Or, Writing Family History from Literary Sources (1994) (17)
- Women, Letters, and the Novel (1984) (16)
- "The Finest Ballads": Women's Oral Traditions in Eighteenth-Century Scotland (2008) (13)
- Interrupted Friendships in Jane Austen's Emma (1986) (13)
- Ballads and Sea Songs of Newfoundland (2005) (6)
- Sleeping with Mr. Collins. (Conference Papers) (2000) (4)
- Home Economics: Representations of Poverty in Eighteenth‐Century Fiction (2007) (4)
- WORDS FOR SEX: THE VERBAL-SEXUAL CONTINUUM IN "TRISTRAM SHANDY" (2016) (4)
- Inventing a Feminist Institution in Boston: An Informal History of the Graduate Consortium in Women's Studies at Radcliffe College (1996) (3)
- Henry James' Sexuality and His Obscure Hurt (1978) (3)
- Mary Astell and Enlightenment (2005) (2)
- The Morality of Orality: Grace Paley's Stories (2009) (2)
- Brother Trouble: Incest Ballads of the British Isles (2006) (2)
- The Solitude of Hawthorne's "Wakefield" (1978) (2)
- THE PRINTED RECORD OF AN ORAL TRADITION: ANNA GORDON BROWN'S BALLADS (2012) (1)
- Novel Relations: Farming fiction: Arthur Young and the problem of representation (2004) (1)
- The Veil of Chastity: Mary Astell's Feminism (2021) (1)
- New Sources for Research in Nigerian History (1955) (1)
- Domestic Realities and Imperial Fictions: Jane Austen's Novels in Eighteenth-Century Contexts (review) (2011) (1)
- Women Writing Music in Late Eighteenth-Century England: Social Harmony in Literature and Performance (review) (2011) (1)
- The Contribution of Gender to the Evolution of the Novel (1996) (1)
- Writing the History of English Feminism (1983) (0)
- Novel Relations: Sexualized marriage and property in the person (2004) (0)
- Patriarchy's Poetry (1984) (0)
- 21L.423 / 21M.223J Introduction to Anglo-American Folkmusic, Fall 2002 (2002) (0)
- Ballaster Ros. Seductive Forms: Women's Amatory Fiction from 1684–61740. New York: Oxford University Press. 1992. Pp. 232. $49.95. (1993) (0)
- Novel Relations: The great disinheritance (2004) (0)
- Novel Relations: Introduction (2004) (0)
- A New Political Pamphlet by Mary Astell (2022) (0)
- Anality and Ethics in Pope's Late Satires (2008) (0)
- Novel Relations: Family feeling (2004) (0)
- Family Matters: Kinship in Jane Austen [book chapter] (2009) (0)
- Novel Relations: The importance of aunts (2004) (0)
- Novel Relations: Brotherly love in life and literature (2004) (0)
- Fact into Fiction, Fiction into Fact (1992) (0)
- Subject to Others: British Women Writers and Colonial Slavery, 1670-1843.@@@Ends of Empire: Women and Ideology in Early Eighteenth-Century English Literature. (1993) (0)
- The Famous Ballads of Anna Gordon, Mrs. Brown (Book Chapter) (2012) (0)
- Music in Jane Austen's Emma (2015) (0)
- Review of SIGRID RIEUWERTS, ED. THE BALLAD REPERTOIRE OF ANNA GORDON, MRS BROWN OF FALKLAND Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011 pp. xiii + 339, isbn 978 1 89797 632 6 (2013) (0)
- From The Literature. (2018) (0)
- Transforming the Cinderella Dream: From Frances Burney to Charlotte Brontë (review) (1991) (0)
- Introduction (2016) (0)
- Revamping Literary History (2012) (0)
- Novel Relations: Sister-right and the bonds of consanguinity (2004) (0)
- Children, Parents, and the Rise of the Novel (review) (2011) (0)
- All in the Family: Consanguinity, Marriage, and Property (2018) (0)
- Recent Articles (2017) (0)
- In the Literature. (2018) (0)
- From the Literature. (2017) (0)
- Novel Relations: Fathers and daughters (2004) (0)
- Writing for Their Lives (1993) (0)
- Mary Astell's Poetry (1982) (0)
- Social Control and the Arts: An International Perspective (2016) (0)
- Novel Relations: Bibliography (2004) (0)
- Novel Relations: Privatized marriage and property relations (2004) (0)
- Kate Retford. The Art of Domestic Life: Family Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century England . New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. 294. $65.00 (cloth). (2008) (0)
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