Margaret J M Ezell

Biographic Data

ID1017156
NAMEMargaret J M Ezell
GIVEN NAMESMargaret J M
FAMILY NAMEEzell
SIGNATUREEZELL M J M
AFFILIATIONSTexas A&M University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS33
TOTAL CITATIONS5
WORKS AS AUTHOR33
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • “News from the Midell Regions” and “Calthorpe’s Chapel.”

    Margaret J M EzellARTICLEEarly Modern Women An Interdiscipli…2025

  • Afterword

    Margaret J M EzellARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2024

    It has been over twenty years since I made the argument that the emerging new field of book history was missing something by focusing narrowly on the creation, reception, and preservation of printed texts. For the most part, scholars concentrated on books as we knew them in the twentieth century, printed and mass produced for a commercial readership. This progressive, chronological model of book history, with its origins in nineteenth- and twenti…

  • Re-visioning the Restoration

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellCHAPTERNew Historical Literary Study2021

  • Lively Effigies

    Margaret J M EzellARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2020

    This article will explore the function of printed “effigies” in the second half of the seventeenth century. The title is taken from Samuel Clarke’s frequently reprinted and enlarged compendium, The Marrow of Ecclesiastical Historie, conteined in the Lives of the Fathers, and other Learned Men, and Famous Divines, . . . Together with the Livelie Effigies of most of the Eminentest of them cut in Copper. The term “effigy” is a Janus word, meaning bo…

  • The Value of Time in Early Modern English Literature

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2020

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  • The Oxford English Literary History

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKThe Oxford English Literary…2017

    This volume in the Oxford English Literary History series covering 1645–1714 removes the traditional literary period labels and boundaries used in earlier studies to categorize the literary culture of late seventeenth-century England, from the Interregnum, through the Commonwealth, the Restoration, and the first decades of the eighteenth century. It explores the continuities and literary innovations occurring as English readers and writers lived …

  • Periodical Publications

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKAcquiring Culture2017

    New formats for periodical publications in this decade included the newspaper, which replaced the earlier newsbooks and handwritten subscription newsletters and which created new opportunities for journalism. In addition to news, they were also important to the development of advertising and opinion writing. While some periodicals were associated with political parties, such as the Tory Examiner for which Jonathan Swift and Delarivier Manley wrot…

  • Fiction and Adventure Narratives

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKThe Oxford English Literary…2017

    Commonwealth publishers actively promoted the sales of fictions, including translations from continental authors and new English titles. Romances were frequently associated with royalist sympathies

  • Creating Values

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKAcquiring Culture2017

    Many poets and dramatists, such as John Dryden and the Earl of Roscommon, included literary criticism, or a critique of literary values, as part of their publications. Criticism took the form of essays, verses, dialogues, and epistles. Biblical exegesis and commentary also offered the tools of literary assessment. Classical literature was viewed as a benchmark for the evaluation of contemporary poetry and drama by Dryden, Congreve, and Thomas Rym…

  • Novels

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKAcquiring Culture2017

    The 1680s and 1690s saw continued interest in fiction, including translations of important continental works by Rabelais and Cervantes. Among popular forms, fictions purporting to be ‘real’ letters and life histories flourished. Several dramatists used the plots found in popular novels as the basis for stage productions, including adaptations of Behn’s fictions, such as Oroonoko by Thomas Southerne. Behn set several of her short fictions in conti…

  • Writing History

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKAcquiring Culture2017

    Many who lived through the English Civil War penned memoirs of their experiences, some of which were published after their deaths, such as Richard Baxter’s life writings and Thomas Fuller’s accounts of the worthies of England, or wrote and published topical public histories, including John Milton’s history of Britain. Samuel Pepys’s and John Evelyn’s diaries are among the most important sources about the Restoration years. Others such as Lucy Hut…

  • Acquiring Culture

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKAcquiring Culture2017

    A survey of the publications aimed at English audiences seeking self-improvement through vernacular dictionaries and guides. Commonwealth writers offered practical artisan knowledge including husbandry and cookery.

  • Renovating the Stage

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKThe Oxford English Literary…2017

    Within three months of Charles II’s return, the London theatres were reopened, with two companies granted royal patents. Thomas Killigrew formed the King’s Company, and William Davenant the Duke’s Company. Initially the repertoire consisted of pre-war plays, with those of Shakespeare, Beaumont, and Fletcher popular. Regular theatre-goer Samuel Pepys recorded his approval of the new actors such as Thomas Betterton, Edward Kynaston, and Charles Har…

  • Hearing, Speaking, Writing

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKThe Oxford English Literary…2017

    During the Commonwealth period, Parliament ejected over 2000 Church of England clerics from their livings, and multiple new Protestant congregations were formed, bringing new styles of discourses of religion and spirituality. Ministers ejected from their parishes, such as Jeremy Taylor and Thomas Fuller, published ecclesiastical histories, books of devotion and meditation, and advice for enduring hardship. Protestant sectarians preached informed …

  • Theatrical Entertainments Outside the London Commercial Playhouses

    Margaret J M EzellBOOKThe Oxford English Literary…2017

    In addition to London commercial theatres, audiences enjoyed dramatic performances performed by strolling companies at local fairs, provincial inns, and in private performance. Dublin’s theatre at Smock Alley offered recent and classical plays. In England, both boys’ and girls’ schools included original performances as part of their curriculum, including interludes and operas that were later done on the professional stage.

  • Educating English Daughters

    Bathsua Makin, Mary More et al.ARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2017

    Bathsua Makin and Mary More, with a Reply to More by Robert Whitehall. Educating English Daughters: Late Seventeenth-Century Debates. Ed. Frances Teague and Margaret J.M. Ezell, assoc. ed. Jessica Walker. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit

  • Big Books, Big Data, and Reading Literary Histories

    Margaret J M EzellARTICLEEighteenth-Century Life2017

    This essay examines the ways in which the single-authored, period literary history has been challenged since the original Oxford History of English Literature series appeared in the mid twentieth century. The volumes in the new Oxford English Literary History appearing in the twenty-first century, intended for the “general reader,” must negotiate charges of imposing a reductive grand narrative whose scholarship is rapidly outdated on one hand, an…

  • Editing Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellARTICLELiterature Compass2010Cited by: 2References: 3

    Both the content and the physical nature of early modern women’s manuscript texts frequently raise significant issues for editors which are not addressed by either classical editorial theory set forth by Greg, Bowers, and Tanselle or the current principles and practices of editing manuscripts as historical documents. ‘E‐editions’ or electronic editions would appear to be the solution, but current market‐driven models of electronic editions and ar…

  • Special Issue

    Open AccessJerome Mcgann, Hans Walter Gabler et al.ARTICLELiterature Compass2010

    This piece is the combined bibliography for the Literature Compass special issue on ‘Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century’. The special issue is made up of the following pieces: ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Preface’, Regenia Gagnier, Literature Compass 7.2 (2010): 33–34, doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2009.00672.x . ‘Special Issue: “Scholarly Editing in the Twenty‐First Century”– Introduction’, Arthur F. Mar…

  • Literary History’s Alternate Groove

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellARTICLELiterature Compass2006

    This piece investigates the possibilities of periodization and its labels for the mid‐ and later seventeenth century, historical decades which have always posed certain problems for those in search of literary period names. The Interregnum as a historical period has very clear boundaries, but supposedly little literary merit. The standard literary histories of the seventeenth century emphasized continuity with earlier Stuart court literary cultur…

  • Mr. Spectator on Readers and the Conspicuous Consumption of Literature

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellARTICLELiterature Compass2004

    ‘Mr. Spectator on Readers and the Conspicuous Consumption of Literature’ uses the Spectator essay no. 10 by Joseph Addison to investigate not only who was reading periodicals at the start of the eighteenth century, but also how Addison envisions them doing so. Addison's observations on the popularity of reading this new type of commercial literary material reveal its ties to the older model of reading found in social, manuscript literary exchange…

  • Looking Glass Histories

    Open AccessMargaret J M EzellARTICLEJournal of British Studies2004Cited by: 2

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  • Social Authorship and the Advent of Print

    Zeynep Tenger, Margaret J M EzellARTICLESouth Atlantic Review2000

  • Gender in Eighteenth-Century England

    Margaret J M Ezell, Hannah Barker et al.ARTICLEThe William and Mary Quarterly1999

  • Writing Women's Literary History

    Margaret J M Ezell, Margaret EzellBOOKWriting women's literary history1996

    "By championing the recovery of "lost" women writers and insisting on reevaluating the past, women's studies and feminist theory have effected dramatic changes in the ways English literary history is written and taught." "According to Margaret Ezell, the next step is to examine critically these successful efforts to write women's literary history - to apply the same self-conscious feminism that critics turned on traditional methods of literary hi…