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Melinda Rabb has research interests in literature and culture of the 'long' eighteenth century, that is, from the time of the English Civil Wars through the career of Jane Austen. Within this broad time-frame, particular interests include satire, secret history, the novel, early modern women's writing, the idea of war and embodiment, material culture, and the history of cognition.
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Melinda Rabb is the author of Satire and Secrecy in English Literature 1650-1750 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007). Her chapters and articles on 18th-c. novels, satire, and poetry, and on authors including Swift, Manley, Pope, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Godwin, and Defoe, have appeared in books such as Cutting Edges: Postmodern Critical Essays on 18th-c. Satire (1995), A Companion to Early Modern Women's Writing (2002), The Blackwell Companion to Satire (2006), and Reading Swift (2008), and in journals such as Modern Language Studies, Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture, PLL, SEL, and ELH. She has edited Lucius: The First Christian King of England for The Broadview Anthology of Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Drama, ed. Douglas Canfield (2000) and a special issue of Modern Language Studies titled Making and Rethinking the Canon: The Eighteenth Century XCIII: 1 (1988). Before joining Brown's faculty, she taught in the Humanities department at MIT. Her most recent publications draw on new research on embodiment, masculinity, and the effects of the the mid-seventeenth-century civil wars on eighteenth-century literature.
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 MELINDA ALLIKER RABB, Ph.D. Harvard University, 1979M.A. University of Chicago, 1971B.A. Radcliffe College, 1969, magna cum laude http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/Melinda_Alliker_Rabb Are you Melinda Alliker Rabb? Click here to edit your research profile. |
