Ros Ballaster
Biographic Data
| ID | 5667864 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ros Ballaster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ros |
| FAMILY NAME | Ballaster |
| SIGNATURE | BALLASTER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mansfield College, University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7617-6913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
L’imperatrice della Luna
At the beginning of act 5 of Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1677), Florinda’s chastity hangs in the balance. Trapped in the apartments of the vengeful fool, Blunt, her identity unknown, she is variously threatened with rape by exiled “cavaliers” Frederick, Blunt, Willmore, and even, it appears, her suitor, Belvile, who cannot find a way to “bring her off.” Her own brother wins the opportunity by lot drawn between the men to ravage the unknown lady but i…
Who’s the Dupe? A Farce
“Oh, that I had you at Braze-nose Madam—I could manage you there,” says the scholar Gradus, frustrated in his courtship of the strong-willed modish Elizabeth Doiley. She is the daughter of Abraham Doiley, a pulled-up-by-his-bootstraps-from-charity-school Eastcheap merchant who is determined to see his only child married to a man of “larning.” It could not have been more appropriate to rehearse and perform a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Co…
Dramatic Satire
The conservatism of satire calls for a return to lost virtues, whether aesthetic, social, or political. At the beginning of the century, under the influence of George Buckingham’s meta-theatrical satire, The Rehearsal (1671), virtue is restored in stage satire through acts of public humiliation, mockery, and punishment. By the end of the century, with the rise of sentimental comedy, lost virtues come to be represented as hidden dimensions of char…
Classical French Fiction and the Restoration Novel
This chapter considers the ways in which Restoration fiction in England adopted and adapted the classical styles of elegance and concision derived from the new experiments in French fiction of the later seventeenth century. Here, the ‘Restoration’ refers to more than a specific dynastic period. The kings of this period brought with them a fondness for and familiarity with the forms of French fiction and French drama acquired in their years of exi…
The Economics of Ethical Conversation
Research Article| January 01 2011 The Economics of Ethical Conversation: The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Ros Ballaster Ros Ballaster Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-031 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
‘Bearing Confucius’ Morals to Britannia's Ears'
This chapter charts the tendency to represent China as a space of inauthenticity, or fictionality, that emerged in the 18th century with the decline in the dominance and credibility of Jesuit missionary reports. However, this new preoccupation with the fragility and ephemerality of ‘China’ paradoxically allowed it to continue to play a robust and elastic role in the British cultural imagination. The analysis of fictional texts about China contrib…
Narrative Moves
This chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to look at what western readers who imagined themselves into the role of Dinarzade—an observer from the sidelines of the dynamics of an eastern despotism—read into oriental tales, a form of narration that flourished from the late 17th to the late 18th century. The book does not seek exhaustively to catalogue the many, various, and frequently conflicting attitudes of 18th-century western Euro…
Tales of the Seraglio
This chapter argues that the oriental woman in narrative accounts figures not only the enclosing and constraining power of despotism but also resistance to it. In so doing, she represents an axis of temporality (the narrative time of storytelling and deferral of its conclusion, the keeping of her head quite literally) which counters the axis of space and looking associated with the oriental male. Her agency is that of the tongue and of time, his …
Shape-Shifting
This chapter uses the trope of transmigration, so popular in oriental tales, to describe the relationship established between Orient and Occident through the consumption of narratives of the East in 18th-century England. It maps each of the major genres of oriental narrative so that readers can orient themselves in the following discussions of the interaction between the representation of geographical spaces and generic traditions. The passage of…
Fabulous Orients
This book considers this concept: narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. This book looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the 18th century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way. Eighteenth-century re…
Fabulous Orients
1. NARRATIVE MOVES 1.1 Dinarzade, the second string 1.2 The state of narrative 2. SHAPE SHIFTING: ORIENTAL TALES 2.1 Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires 2.2 The framed sequence 2.3 Travellers' tales 2.4 Fictional letters 2.5 Histories 2.6 Heroic drama 2.7 A passion for tales 3. TALES OF THE SERAGLIO: TURKEY AND PERSIA 3.1 Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan 3.2 Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia 3.3 Loquacious women I: staging the O…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
Seductive Forms
Between the Lines
Seductive Forms
Women’s Worlds
This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' critical reading of past and present maga
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Women’s Worlds
This book integrates new material, using sources from the eighteenth and nineteenth century periodical press, research with contemporary readers, the authors' critical reading of past and present maga
Seductive Forms
Seductive Forms
Between the Lines
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
Fabulous Orients
1. NARRATIVE MOVES 1.1 Dinarzade, the second string 1.2 The state of narrative 2. SHAPE SHIFTING: ORIENTAL TALES 2.1 Fadlallah and Zemroude, transmigratory desires 2.2 The framed sequence 2.3 Travellers' tales 2.4 Fictional letters 2.5 Histories 2.6 Heroic drama 2.7 A passion for tales 3. TALES OF THE SERAGLIO: TURKEY AND PERSIA 3.1 Roxolana: the loquacious courtesan 3.2 Speaking likenesses: Turkey and Persia 3.3 Loquacious women I: staging the O…
‘Bearing Confucius’ Morals to Britannia's Ears'
This chapter charts the tendency to represent China as a space of inauthenticity, or fictionality, that emerged in the 18th century with the decline in the dominance and credibility of Jesuit missionary reports. However, this new preoccupation with the fragility and ephemerality of ‘China’ paradoxically allowed it to continue to play a robust and elastic role in the British cultural imagination. The analysis of fictional texts about China contrib…
Narrative Moves
This chapter sets out the purpose of the book, which is to look at what western readers who imagined themselves into the role of Dinarzade—an observer from the sidelines of the dynamics of an eastern despotism—read into oriental tales, a form of narration that flourished from the late 17th to the late 18th century. The book does not seek exhaustively to catalogue the many, various, and frequently conflicting attitudes of 18th-century western Euro…
Tales of the Seraglio
This chapter argues that the oriental woman in narrative accounts figures not only the enclosing and constraining power of despotism but also resistance to it. In so doing, she represents an axis of temporality (the narrative time of storytelling and deferral of its conclusion, the keeping of her head quite literally) which counters the axis of space and looking associated with the oriental male. Her agency is that of the tongue and of time, his …
Shape-Shifting
This chapter uses the trope of transmigration, so popular in oriental tales, to describe the relationship established between Orient and Occident through the consumption of narratives of the East in 18th-century England. It maps each of the major genres of oriental narrative so that readers can orient themselves in the following discussions of the interaction between the representation of geographical spaces and generic traditions. The passage of…
Fabulous Orients
This book considers this concept: narrative moves. Stories migrate from one culture to another, over vast distances sometimes, but their path is often difficult to trace and obscured by time. This book looks at the traffic of narrative between Orient and Occident in the 18th century, and challenges the assumption that has dominated since the publication of Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) that such traffic is always one-way. Eighteenth-century re…
The Economics of Ethical Conversation
Research Article| January 01 2011 The Economics of Ethical Conversation: The Commerce of the Letter in Eliza Haywood and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Ros Ballaster Ros Ballaster Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Eighteenth-Century Life (2011) 35 (1): 119–132. https://doi.org/10.1215/00982601-2010-031 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitte…
Classical French Fiction and the Restoration Novel
This chapter considers the ways in which Restoration fiction in England adopted and adapted the classical styles of elegance and concision derived from the new experiments in French fiction of the later seventeenth century. Here, the ‘Restoration’ refers to more than a specific dynastic period. The kings of this period brought with them a fondness for and familiarity with the forms of French fiction and French drama acquired in their years of exi…
Dramatic Satire
The conservatism of satire calls for a return to lost virtues, whether aesthetic, social, or political. At the beginning of the century, under the influence of George Buckingham’s meta-theatrical satire, The Rehearsal (1671), virtue is restored in stage satire through acts of public humiliation, mockery, and punishment. By the end of the century, with the rise of sentimental comedy, lost virtues come to be represented as hidden dimensions of char…
Who’s the Dupe? A Farce
“Oh, that I had you at Braze-nose Madam—I could manage you there,” says the scholar Gradus, frustrated in his courtship of the strong-willed modish Elizabeth Doiley. She is the daughter of Abraham Doiley, a pulled-up-by-his-bootstraps-from-charity-school Eastcheap merchant who is determined to see his only child married to a man of “larning.” It could not have been more appropriate to rehearse and perform a script-in-hand performance of Hannah Co…
L’imperatrice della Luna
At the beginning of act 5 of Aphra Behn’s The Rover (1677), Florinda’s chastity hangs in the balance. Trapped in the apartments of the vengeful fool, Blunt, her identity unknown, she is variously threatened with rape by exiled “cavaliers” Frederick, Blunt, Willmore, and even, it appears, her suitor, Belvile, who cannot find a way to “bring her off.” Her own brother wins the opportunity by lot drawn between the men to ravage the unknown lady but i…
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