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Dr Anita Pacheco

Senior Lecturer

Research Interests

Early modern women’s writing, in particular the works of Aphra Behn; Restoration Toryism; Shakespeare; John Bunyan and seventeenth-century Protestantism.

Selected Publications

Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, Writers and Their Work (Northcote House, 2007)

(ed.) A Companion to Early Modern Women’s Writing (Blackwell, 2002)

(ed.) Early Women Writers: 1600-1720 (Longman, 1998)

(ed., with John Stachniewski) Grace Abounding with Other Spiritual Autobiographies (World’s Classics, 1998)

‘ “Swearing Knaves and Believing Fools”: False Swearing in John Crowne’s City Politiques’, Restoration, 30, 2 (2006), 21-37.

‘Reading Toryism in Aphra Behn’s Cit-Cuckolding Comedies’, Review of English Studies, 55 (2004), 690-708

‘Consent and Female Honor in The Luckey Chance’, in Aphra Behn: Identity, Alterity, Ambiguity, ed. Mary Ann O’Donnell (2000)

‘Rape and the Female Subject in Aphra Behn’s The Rover’, English Literary History 65 (1998), 323-45.

‘Royalism and Honor in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko’, Studies in English Literature 34 (1994), 491-506.

See also Open Research Online for further details of Anita Pacheco’s research publications.

Early Modern Women's Writing cover

Early Women Writers 1600-1720 cover

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