Ros Ballaster - Selected Publications#

1. 2005 Fabulous Orients: Fictions of the East in England 1662-1785 (Oxford: Oxford University Press). 405 pages. ISBN 0-19-9267330. Winner of the Rose Mary Crawshay prize from British Academy (2006).

2. Ed. The History of British Women's Writing, 1690 - 1750: Volume Four (History of British Women’s Writing), 312 pages .Palgrave Macmillan (17 Sep 2010) .ISBN-10: 0230549381 ISBN-13: 978-0230549388 . Includes two essays by Ros Ballaster. ‘Introduction’ ,1-19 and ‘Critical Review’, 235-251

3. Seductive Forms: Women’s Amatory Fiction 1684-1740 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, June 1992) 225 pages. Rpt in June 1994. ISBN 0-19-811233-0

4. 2015 “Philosophical and Oriental Tales,” The Oxford History of the Novel in English:
Volume 2: English and British Fiction 1750-1820, ed. by Peter Garside and Karen O’Brien (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015), 353-369. ISBN 978-0-19-957480-3

5. 2013 ‘The Sea-Born Tale: Eighteenth-Century English Translation of The Thousand and One Nights and the Lure of Elemental Difference,’ Scheherazade’s Children: Global Encounters with the Arabian Nights , ed. by Marina Warner and Philip Kennedy
(New York and London: New York University Press, 2013), 27-52. ISBN 9781479857098

6. 2008 ‘Playing the second string: the role of Dinarzade in eighteenth-century English fiction’, in The Arabian Nights in Historical Context Between East and West, eds. Saree Makdisi and Felicity Nussbaum (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008), 83- 102 . ISBN-13: 978-0-19-955415-7.

7. 2006 ‘Jonathan Swift, the Stella poems,’ in A Companion to Eighteenth Century Poetry, ed. Christine Gerrard (Oxford: Blackwell, 2006), 170-83. ISBN 1405113162

8. 2005 ‘Narrative Transmigrations: The Oriental Tale and the Novel in Eighteenth-Century Britain,’ in A Companion to the Eighteenth-Century Novel and Culture, eds. Paula R. Backscheider and Catherine Ingrassia (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 75-96. ISBN 1- 4051-0157-1

9. 2004 ‘The story of the heart’: Love-Letters between a Nobleman and his Sister in Derek Hughes and Janet Todd eds., The Cambridge Companion to Aphra Behn (Cambridge UP, 2004), 135-150. ISBN 0-521-52720-1

10. 2000 ‘Women and the Rise of the Novel: Sexual Prescripts,’ in Vivien Jones ed., Women and Literature in Britain 1700-1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 197-216. ISBN 0521 58347 0 hbk/ 0521 58680 1 pbk.