Women's writing 1660-1830 - feminisms and futures
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 20671036
- Type
- B - Edited book
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10.1057/978-1-137-54382-0
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 978-1-137-54381-3
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited collection of 266pp (10 chapters, Introduction, Preface and Postscript, 95,000 words) is the outcome of work by Dr Gillian Dow and Professor Jennie Batchelor (Kent). It started life after a conference held at Chawton House Library in 2013 (c. 250 delegates), to commemorate the bicentenary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, and ten years since the opening of Chawton House itself. It is not, however, a conference proceedings. Rather, it was commissioned by the editors as a result of discussions at that landmark conference. Both editors took equal responsibility for editing individual chapters.
The collection includes chapters from ten authors, based in the UK, the US, Canada and Ireland, an introduction, preface, and a postscript. Chapters map the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing across all genres in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring its obsolescence. Contributions are polemical, and cross-disciplinary, presenting new and compelling ways forward for the writing of feminist literary history.
Dow and Batchelor co-authored the introduction (6,000 words), making equal contributions. They position the volume within the 50-year ‘recovery’ project for women’s writing. It concludes with a challenge, urging scholars to remember that the future of women’s literary history must depend not only upon a sustained and critical interrogation of the imperatives that drove its historic obfuscation, but also upon those that have structured the logic of its recent resurgence. Dow is the sole author of Chapter Ten (8,330 words), on biographical impulses in pan-European women’s writing. This is based on her original research, on primary source material first published in French (which has never been translated) and in English in the eighteenth century.
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