80 research outputs found
Haunting History: Women, Catholicism, and the Writing of National History in Sophia Lee's The Recess
No full textThis chapter explores strategies of re-writing British history in The Recess, with particular attention to the ways in which hagiography and historiography shape responses to the nation’s past. The assumption of Catholicism as Britain’s foreign ‘other’ ignores the experiences of British Catholics and the tenacity of history and tradition that does not necessarily obey political or legislative edicts. Lee’s adaptation of British history for the purposes of her late eighteenth-century audience is apparent in some respects and subtle in others. Catholicism is explicitly condemned but is not expelled from the narrative; it enables particular discourses associated with haunting and spectrality that the ‘Age of Reasons’ sought to distance. Linked with primitivism, superstition, and political tyranny, Catholicism represents antithesis of the kind of individual and collective freedom that increasingly defined the desired ‘Britain’. The Recess returns to the site of Protestant Britain’s mythological origin and produces possible strategies of mourning and remembering, linking together Britain’s abandoned Catholic heritage and women’s experiences of cultural abandonment with hagiographic and historiographic strategies of narrating national history
Printed by Alice Broade: the career of York's first female printer, 1661-1680
No full textAlice Broad was York’s first female printer and, for a time, the only printer in York following the Restoration of the Monarchy in 1661. Very little is known about Broad, and this chapter draws on archival research from the holdings of York Minster Library, which houses eleven of her seventeen extant publications. Broad’s career also underwrites the later development of York’s print trades. Alice’s tools and presses went with Hannah Broad into her marriage with John White and became the foundation of his own extremely successful printing business. Alice Broad was among White’s first collaborators in York and both she and her daughter would have provided the future ‘printer to their Royal Majesties’ (William and Mary) with materials, expertise, and connections in the regional trade. The unique position of York forms an important backdrop to Broad’s career as a city that is both central and regional. This chapter is the first in-depth exploration of her career in the history of York’s print trades
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No full textby: Kaley Major.Title from PDF cover (viewed on August 5, 2021).This archived document is maintained by the State Library of Oregon as part of the Oregon Documents Depository Program. It is for informational purposes and may not be suitable for legal purposes.Includes bibliographical references (page 23).Mode of access: Internet from the Oregon Government Publications Collection.Text in English
The people of print: seventeenth-century England
No full textThis collection profiles understudied figures in the book and print trades of the seventeenth century. With an equal balance between women and men, it intervenes in the history of the trades, emphasising the broad range of material, cultural, and ideological work these people undertook. It offers a biographical introduction to each figure, placing them in their social, professional, and institutional settings. The collection considers varied print trade roles including that of the printer, publisher, paper-maker, and bookseller, as well as several specific trade networks and numerous textual forms. The biographies draw on extensive new archival research, with details of key sources for further study on each figure. Chronologically organised, this Element offers a primer both on numerous individual figures, and on the tribulations and innovations of the print trade in the century of revolution
Religious Intent and the Art of Courteous Pleasantry: A Few Letters from Englishwomen to Heinrich Bullinger (1543-1562)
No full text"Religious Intend and the Art of Courteous Pleasantry" explores the possibility of gender inclusive Reformations-narrative in light of the exchanges between Heinrich Bullinger and English women from the perspective of microhistory and the history of culture. Particularly the linguistic, historical, and theological content of the thirteen-letter correspondence between Heinrich Bullinger and Anna Hilles, Lady Jane Grey, Anne Hooper and Margaret Parkhurst is considered. Inserting the women's letters and Bullinger's replies into the larger Reformation context reveals English women of remarkable independence and dedication to the religious and political Reformation of England. The women's religious and political language signifies a collective identity of co-combatants in a missionary struggle to reform England influenced by Zurich
"How do you like my darkness now?": Women, Violence, and the 'Good Bad' Girl in Buffy the Vampire Slayer
No full textThis edited volume interrogates the representation of transgressive women in television, popular fiction, and mainstream film from the mid-to-late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Each of essay concentrates on the perception of women, young and old, as “bad girls,” those defying or transgressing the traditional social roles, attitudes, and pursuits defined as “appropriate” for women and girls. In presenting these treatments, this volume analyzes longstanding and more recent questions surrounding the role and importance of women who “just say no.” With examples across popular media and literature, what remains a constant among all of these bad girls despite their different media and personalities is the will to cross the boundaries of behavior deemed, by prevailing authorities, to be acceptable
The Limits of Genre: Women and ‘History’ in Frances Sheridan’s The Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and Elizabeth Griffith’s The History of Lady Barton
No full textForms and Feelings in the Genre
No full textThis chapter explores the connections between novels of sensibility and Gothic novels in the later eighteenth century, focusing on Frances Sheridan, Sophia Lee, and Ann Radcliffe. Women throughout the eighteenth century were not constituted as full ‘subjects’ before the law, but were positioned through marriage as passive transmitters of property between men. This ontological status of fragmented subjectivity has been rightly identified as a key part of the ‘Female Gothic’; however, it emerges in earlier texts as well. Locating these texts in relation to legal discourses of ownership and inheritance, the chapter argues for the continuity of women’s experiences in novels of sensibility and the Gothic
Women During the English Reformations: negotiating gender and religious identity
No full textCatholic or Protestant, recusant or godly rebel, early modern women reinvented their spiritual and gendered spaces during the reformations in religion in England during the sixteenth century and beyond. These essays explore the ways in which some Englishwomen struggled to erase, rewrite, or reimagine their religious and gender identities
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