Most cited papers in Literature: history, themes, analysis
What are the most cited papers in Literature: history, themes, analysis?
The most cited paper in Literature: history, themes, analysis is "Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history" (Amanda Vickery, 1993), with 830 citations. Next come "Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History" (797) and "Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870" (564).
Showing 50 of 101 papers. Every paper with more than 64 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden age to separate spheres? A review of the categories and chronology of English women's history Amanda Vickery · The Historical Journal | Jun 1993 | 830 |
| 2 | Separate Spheres, Female Worlds, Woman's Place: The Rhetoric of Women's History Linda K. Kerber · Journal of American History | Jun 1988 | 797 |
| 3 | Confidence Men and Painted Women: A Study of Middle-Class Culture in America, 1830-1870 David A. Grimsted, Karen Halttunen · Journal of American History | Dec 1983 | 564 |
| 4 | The Frenzy of Renown: Fame and Its History Leo Braudy · Works - Scholarship, Research, & Creative Expression (Swarthmore College) | 1986 | 553 |
| 5 | Blacking Up: The Minstrel show in Nineteenth-Century America Bill C. Malone, Robert C. Toll · Journal of American History | Dec 1975 | 433 |
| 6 | Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Robert S. Levine · Resources for American Literary Study | Jul 2019 | 313 |
| 7 | Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville Philip F. Gura, Michael Rogin · Journal of American History | Jun 1984 | 216 |
| 8 | Impossible Witnesses: Truth, Abolitionism, and Slave Testimony Diane Batts Morrow, Dwight A. McBride · Journal of American History | Dec 2002 | 209 |
| 9 | “BAUBLES OF BRITAIN”: THE AMERICAN AND CONSUMER REVOLUTIONS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY T. H. Breen · Past & Present | 1988 | 209 |
| 10 | Introduction: What Is Reenactment? Vanessa Agnew · Criticism | 2004 | 202 |
| 11 | Sisters of the Spirit: Three Black Women's Autobiographies of the Nineteenth Century Emma Jones Lapsansky, William L. Andrews · Journal of American History | Sep 1987 | 190 |
| 12 | Frances Wolfreston and ‘Hor Bouks’: A Seventeenth-Century Woman Book-Collector Paul Morgan · The Library | Sep 1989 | 188 |
| 13 | Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America Sarah J. Stage, Mary L. Kelley · Journal of American History | Dec 1984 | 177 |
| 14 | Emphasis Added: Plots and Plausibilities in Women's Fiction Nancy K. Miller · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | 1981 | 168 |
| 15 | The Revolution in Popular Literature: Print, Politics and the People, 1790–1860 Ray B. Browne · The Journal of American Culture | 9 Feb 2005 | 165 |
| 16 | Androgyny, Mimesis, and the Marriage of the Boy Heroine on the English Renaissance Stage Phyllis Rackin · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | 1987 | 162 |
| 17 | Fortescue and the Political Theory of dominium James H. Burns · The Historical Journal | Dec 1985 | 154 |
| 18 | Redeeming Eve. Women Writers of the English Renaissance Elaine V. Beilin, Joyce T. Forbes · Renaissance and Reformation | Feb 2009 | 149 |
| 19 | Gothic Versus Romantic: A Revaluation of The Gothic Novel Robert D. Hume · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | Mar 1969 | 129 |
| 20 | Womanufacture Alison Sharrock · The Journal of Roman Studies | Nov 1991 | 128 |
| 21 | Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life. Louise L. Stevenson, Joan D. Hedrick · Journal of American History | Dec 1994 | 128 |
| 22 | Some Aspects and Problems of London Publishing between 1550 and 1650. Giles E. Dawson, W. W. Greg · Shakespeare Quarterly | 1958 | 126 |
| 23 | Writing Gone Wilde: Homoerotic Desire in the Closet of Representation Edward Cohen · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | Oct 1987 | 123 |
| 24 | Women & Sisters: The Antislavery Feminists in American Culture Joyce Sparer Adler, Jean Fagan Yellin · The New England Quarterly | Mar 1991 | 121 |
| 25 | The crisis of literature in the 1790s print culture and the public sphere Paul Keen | 1999 | 120 |
| 26 | Communities in Early Modern England: Networks, Place, Rhetoric Robert L. Woods · History Reviews of New Books | 2001 | 119 |
| 27 | New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time Laurence R. Veysey, Thomas Bender · History of Education Quarterly | 1988 | 117 |
| 28 | Hannah More: The First Victorian James Thayne Covert · History Reviews of New Books | 2003 | 115 |
| 29 | The new eighteenth century Michael Bentley · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 24 Dec 2009 | 112 |
| 30 | Byron, mobility, and the poetics of historical ventriloquism Jerome McGann · Romanticism Past and Present | 1985 | 112 |
| 31 | Slumming: Sexual and Social Politics in Victorian London Ruth Clayton Windscheffel · The English Historical Review | Feb 2007 | 111 |
| 32 | Novels behind Glass: Commodity Culture and Victorian Narrative Jeremy Tambling, Andrew H. Miller · The Yearbook of English Studies | 1998 | 107 |
| 33 | The newspaper, public opinion, and the public sphere in the seventeenth century Joad Raymond · Prose Studies | Aug 1998 | 107 |
| 34 | The Other “Child Study”: Figuring Children as Consumers in Market Research, 1910s–1990s Daniel Thomas Cook · Sociological Quarterly | Jun 2000 | 105 |
| 35 | The Laughing Tortoise: Speculations on Manuscript Sources and Women's Book History Margaret J. M. Ezell · English Literary Renaissance | Mar 2008 | 104 |
| 36 | Modernism and Cultural Conflict 1880-1922 Kevin Swafford, Ann L. Ardis · The Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association | 2003 | 103 |
| 37 | The epistolary mode and the first of Ovid's Heroides Duncan F. Kennedy · The Classical Quarterly | Dec 1984 | 102 |
| 38 | :The Making of the Modern Self: Identity and Culture in Eighteenth‐Century England Felicity A. Nussbaum · The American Historical Review | Jun 2005 | 101 |
| 39 | Flirting With Fame: Byron's Anonymous Female Fans Corin Throsby · The Byron Journal | 2004 | 101 |
| 40 | American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields. Alice Fahs, Michael Winship · Journal of American History | Jun 1997 | 101 |
| 41 | Fictions of Eighteenth Century Authorship Dustin H. Griffin · Essays in Criticism | 1993 | 100 |
| 42 | Libels, Popular Literacy and Public Opinion in Early Modern England Pauline Croft · Historical Research | Oct 1995 | 100 |
| 43 | The Uses of History in Early Modern England Jason Peacey · The English Historical Review | 24 Jul 2008 | 100 |
| 44 | Manhood and the American Renaissance. E. Anthony Rotundo, David Leverenz · Journal of American History | Jun 1990 | 99 |
| 45 | Melville's Quarrel with Fiction Nina Baym · PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America | Oct 1979 | 99 |
| 46 | “With a most voiceless thought”: Byron and the radicalism of textual culture Dino Franco Felluga · European Romantic Review | Mar 2000 | 98 |
| 47 | England's Cato: the virtues and fortunes of Algernon Sidney John G. A. Pocock · The Historical Journal | Dec 1994 | 95 |
| 48 | The Pen and the People: English Letter Writers, 1660–1800 Wendy Jones Nakanishi · English Studies | 27 Aug 2010 | 92 |
| 49 | The Romantic National Tale and the Question of Ireland Andrea Cabajsky, Ina Ferris · The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies | 2004 | 90 |
| 50 | Pocock's Harrington: Grace, Nature and Art in the Classical Republicanism of James Harrington J. C. Davis · The Historical Journal | Sep 1981 | 89 |
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