Rebecca Bullard
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rebecca Bullard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rebecca |
| FAMILY NAME | Bullard |
| SIGNATURE | BULLARD R |
| AFFILIATIONS | a Merton College , Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Defoe as Historian
Across his lifetime, Daniel Defoe wrote a number of works of history in a range of genres. These include pamphlets that survey recent developments in state affairs, secret histories that purport to expose behind-the-scenes political machinations, full-scale histories such as The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709/10), and historical novels such as Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720). This chapter argues that to understand Defoe as a historian w…
The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820
Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the important position that the genre occupies within the literary and political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of British, French and American literature, as well as …
Gatherings in Exile
This essay argues that the material, bibliographical structure—that is, the internal sequence of leaves and gatherings—of Margaret Cavendish's Natures Pictures (1656) is central to this volume's autobiographical function. Leaves and gatherings inserted late in the process of production testify not only to the author's lively mind and sometimes frantic working practices, but also to her political situation as an exile. The geographical and, theref…
Textual Disruption in Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea (1654)
I1654 witnessed the publication of a series of four texts by and about Anna Trapnel, a Fifth Monarchist prophet and polemicist. This article examines the last of these texts to be published: Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea, which appeared in or after September 1654.1 The Report and Plea gives an account of a journey to Cornwall undertaken by Trapnel in February or March of the same year and of her subsequent imprisonment in Bridewell, London. Most…
Gatherings in Exile
This essay argues that the material, bibliographical structure—that is, the internal sequence of leaves and gatherings—of Margaret Cavendish's Natures Pictures (1656) is central to this volume's autobiographical function. Leaves and gatherings inserted late in the process of production testify not only to the author's lively mind and sometimes frantic working practices, but also to her political situation as an exile. The geographical and, theref…
Textual Disruption in Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea (1654)
I1654 witnessed the publication of a series of four texts by and about Anna Trapnel, a Fifth Monarchist prophet and polemicist. This article examines the last of these texts to be published: Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea, which appeared in or after September 1654.1 The Report and Plea gives an account of a journey to Cornwall undertaken by Trapnel in February or March of the same year and of her subsequent imprisonment in Bridewell, London. Most…
Textual Disruption in Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea (1654)
I1654 witnessed the publication of a series of four texts by and about Anna Trapnel, a Fifth Monarchist prophet and polemicist. This article examines the last of these texts to be published: Anna Trapnel's Report and Plea, which appeared in or after September 1654.1 The Report and Plea gives an account of a journey to Cornwall undertaken by Trapnel in February or March of the same year and of her subsequent imprisonment in Bridewell, London. Most…
Gatherings in Exile
This essay argues that the material, bibliographical structure—that is, the internal sequence of leaves and gatherings—of Margaret Cavendish's Natures Pictures (1656) is central to this volume's autobiographical function. Leaves and gatherings inserted late in the process of production testify not only to the author's lively mind and sometimes frantic working practices, but also to her political situation as an exile. The geographical and, theref…
The Secret History in Literature, 1660–1820
Secret history, with its claim to expose secrets of state and the sexual intrigues of monarchs and ministers, alarmed and thrilled readers across Europe and America from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Scholars have recognised for some time the important position that the genre occupies within the literary and political culture of the Enlightenment. Of interest to students of British, French and American literature, as well as …
Defoe as Historian
Across his lifetime, Daniel Defoe wrote a number of works of history in a range of genres. These include pamphlets that survey recent developments in state affairs, secret histories that purport to expose behind-the-scenes political machinations, full-scale histories such as The History of the Union of Great Britain (1709/10), and historical novels such as Memoirs of a Cavalier (1720). This chapter argues that to understand Defoe as a historian w…
Art (4 works) · Literature (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art history (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · History (2 works)