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Margaret J. M. Ezell

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Margaret J. M. Ezell is a Distinguished Professor at Texas A&M University and the Sara and John Lindsey Chair of Liberal Arts. Her scholarship focuses on late 17th- and early 18th-century literary culture, early modern women writers, history of authorship, reading and handwritten culture, feminist theory, digital cultures, and electronic media.[1]

Educational career

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She received her PhD at Cambridge University and her BA with Honors in English and History at Wellesley College.[1]

Works

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She is the author of several books including Writing Women's Literary History [1], The Patriarch's Wife [2], Social Authorship and the Advent of Print [3], and The Oxford English Literary History Volume v: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century [4]. She has published articles in English Literary History and Shakespeare Studies.[2] In 2011, she published an article in Modern Philology entitled "Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting."[5][3]

Books

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  • The Oxford English Literary History: Volume V: 1645-1714: The Later Seventeenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • "My Rare Wit Killing Sin": Poems of a Restoration Courtier, Anne Killigrew Toronto: Center for Renaissance and Reformation Studies/ ITER, 2013.
  • Social Authorship and the Advert of Print. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University, 1999.
  • With Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, The Image, and The Body. Ann Arbor, MI: Univ. of Michigan Press, 1994.
  • Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1993.
  • The Patriarch's Wife: Literary Evidence and the History of the Family. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

References

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  1. ^ a b Faculty profile Archived 10 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine. Texas A&M University. Accessed 15 March 2013.
  2. ^ "Performance Texts: Arise Evans, Grace Carrie, and the Interplay of Oral and Handwritten Traditions during the Print Revolution." ELH 76.1 (2009): 49–73.
  3. ^ "Elizabeth Isham's Books of Remembrance and Forgetting." Modern Philology 109.1 (2011): 71–84.