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A feminist literary history of women's writing in the British Isles: Orlando volume one
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SSHRC IG awarded 2021. This research project will provide "A Feminist Literary History of Women's Writing in the British Isles: The Beginnings to 1800", the first large-scale unabashedly feminist narrative history evaluating over 500 years of writing in English by women to 1800, and the first volume in a projected four-volume series extending to the present. The project grows out of the experimental digital resource Orlando: Women's Writing in the British Isles (Cambridge UP, 2006-) which includes 456 entries on pre-1800 women's writing encoded with an original feminist literary schema. This project of narrative literary history will harness the research potential of the encoding to produce an intersectional map of pre-1800 women's writing for both general and scholarly readers. We aim to revitalize the field of women's writing for the twenty-first century in three ways: 1) by presenting new arguments grounded in original connections between texts that the digital enables, ones that challenge the critical chestnuts of twentieth-century feminist literary criticism; 2) by providing dynamic cross-period topical discussions revealing patterns in women's writing across three periods (Medieval, Early Modern and Eighteenth-Century); and 3) by bringing new readers to early women's texts through a public humanities initiative. This initiative will involve piloting an internship model for PhD training in the Humanities based in developing professional skills for the knowledge economy rather than the academy. Our project goals are to: 1) produce a feminist, narrative literary history of women's writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to 1800 and to collaborate with a team to publish a 4-volume series, covering writing to the present; 2) demonstrate the value of digital humanities by generating new knowledge through experimental linking of Orlando's interpretative material; 3) bring new non-specialist readers to early women's writing by translating scholarly literary history into more popular forms; 4) model a new form of PhD training via an internship in the public humanities.
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- 2020-10-01
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- Research Material
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- © Binhammer, Katherine. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document is embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2028.