Description: An absorbing study of the contested embodiment of the idea of "presence" in the plays and novels of the eighteenth century.
Brief description: ROS BALLASTER is Professor of Eighteenth Century Studies in the Faculty of English, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. She has written extensively on women's writing of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in addition to investigating the effect of oriental culture on literature of the Enlightenment.
Review Quotes: [T]his analysis of the theater-novel relationship is significant and goes beyond questions of influence or source study.-- "CHOICE"