Dr. Jan M. Stahl is an Assistant Professor in English at the Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY. Her interest is in violence and sexuality as depicted in eighteenth-century literature. Dr. Stahl received her Ph.D. in English from New York University.
2014 1-4955-0272-4 An integrated and comprehensive study of the ways that female characters in early eighteenth-century novels used letter writing and verbal narration as a strategy for coping with sexual violence. The novels studied are groundbreaking works in the history of feminist literature.