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Freitag, 21. August 2020, 16:00 - 17:00 iCal
Art & Action: Female Authorship & Activism
Art & Action: A Webinar Series on Literary Authorship, Politics, and Celebrity Culture
online
Seminar, Workshop, Kurs
What did it mean for women writers in the long nineteenth century to engage in political activism?
The speakers in this webinar will touch upon theenabling and disabling potential of celebrity for politically engaged female authorsand reveal the tension theyoften experiencedbetween respectability and transgression, public and privatespheres, authorial self-assertion and self-denigration.
Anna Paluchowska-Messing traces these dilemmas in the writings of Frances Burney (1752-1840). She demonstrates that while Burney acknowledged the leverage of her own celebrity status, she was also aware that by deploying her reputational capital beyond the sphere of literature, she transgressed contemporary gender norms and risked damaging, or even forfeiting,her authority.
Eva Sage Gordon focuses on the careers of Nellie Bly (1864-1922) and Fanny Fern (1811-1872), two New York City-based female journalists who achieved considerable fame writing under pseudonyms and who delicately balanced their reputations in private with their public notoriety. Noting the centrality of technological advancements, the role of professional authorship, and the rise in daily penny newspapersin the nineteenth century, sheexamines the possibilities embedded in celebrity culture for transgressive gender performances by female writers.
Anna Paluchowska-Messing: “No ‘mere passive spectactress’: Frances Burney and the Engagement of the Eighteenth-Century Writer in Politics”
Eva Sage Gordon: “Nellie Bly and Fanny Fern: Fame in the Gendered 19th Century”
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Anna Paluchowska-Messingis a faculty member in the Institute of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, where she holds the position of a Research Fellow and Lecturer in British Literature and Culture. Her book Frances Burney and Her Readers: The Negotiated Imageis soon to be published by Peter Lang. Her research interests circle round the relationships between the novel and drama in the long eighteenth century, and authorial representations and self-presentations in the period.
Eva Sage Gordonholds an MFA in Fiction Writing, an MA in English, and is currently a Ph.D. student in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY in New York City. Her research interests include life writing, celebrity studies, American culture, and women’s history.
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Eugenie Maria Theuer
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
069910214110
eugenie.theuer@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Montag, 10. August 2020, 14:09
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 12. August 2020, 14:25