Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 18327
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-54382-0
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137543813
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2016
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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
- Yes
- Additional information
- Women’s Writing, 1660-1830: Feminisms and Futures is a 90.000-word co-edited volume that poses the central research question whether the successful integration of women’s literary history inaugurated the field’s obsolescence. It contains an introduction and ten essays by leading international scholars that argue for the future of women’s literary history via the articulation of new research questions and new methodologies.
The volume emerged from a 2013 conference organised jointly by Batchelor and Dow (Batchelor’s share 50%). The conference commemorated the 10th anniversary of the establishment of Chawton House Library, a Centre for the Study of Women’s Writing from 1660-1830. Its purpose was to reflect on the legacies and impacts of the library’s founding, the scholarly research it generated, its international visiting fellowship programme and energetic public outreach activities. Subsequent to the conference, Batchelor and Dow conceived of this volume as an investigation into the institutional, economic, political and cultural pressures feminist scholars faced when trying to teach, research or publish women’s literary history.
The book’s ten chapters, along with a preface and postscript, were jointly conceptualised, commissioned and edited (Batchelor’s share 50%). Batchelor’s other contributions include: a co-written state-of-the-field 7.000-word introduction (50% with Dow); and a 7.000-word sole-authored essay advocating that feminist scholars accept the invigorating challenges that anonymous and pseudonymous publication present to women’s writing as an analytical category or structuring principle in literary history.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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