Barbara Taylor
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Barbara Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Queen Mary University of London where she taught in a a joint professorship in the Schools of English & Drama, and History. Her research interests include Theories, Histories and Representations of Subjectivity, Enlightenment Studies
Psychoanalytic Studies, Histories of Solitude, Feminist Theory and History, and Radical Writing in Britain 1790-1850. She is the author of Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century (Knopf, 1983); Mary Wollstonecraft and the Feminist Imagination (Cambridge, 2003); Women, Gender and Enlightenment, 1650-1850(Co-edited with Sarah Knott) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005); On Kindness (Co-authored with Adam Phillips) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009); History & Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis and the Past (Co-edited with Sally Alexander) (Palgrave, 2012); and The Last Asylum: A Memoir of Madness in Our Times (Hamish Hamilton, 2014)