https://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php?title=General:Hysteria_and_Creativity_in_Eighteenth-Century_Writing_by_Women&feed=atom&action=historyGeneral:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women - Revision history2024-03-29T08:50:56ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.15.1https://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php?title=General:Hysteria_and_Creativity_in_Eighteenth-Century_Writing_by_Women&diff=1498&oldid=prevSusanBrown: moved Story:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women to General:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women2010-06-09T05:16:28Z<p>moved <a href="/index.php/Story:Hysteria_and_Creativity_in_Eighteenth-Century_Writing_by_Women" class="mw-redirect" title="Story:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women">Story:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women</a> to <a href="/index.php/General:Hysteria_and_Creativity_in_Eighteenth-Century_Writing_by_Women" title="General:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women">General:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women</a></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|selfDescription = I am a literary scholar and teacher specializing in eighteenth-century literature and women’s writing. My most recent work focuses on cultural, literary, and medical representations of hysteria in the Age of Reason, and I am currently exploring the relationship between illness and creativity in a group of women writers. Though I rely heavily on print texts not yet digitized, I use various databases (including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Google Books, JSTOR, and MLA bibliography) frequently in my research and teaching. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|selfDescription = I am a literary scholar and teacher specializing in eighteenth-century literature and women’s writing. My most recent work focuses on cultural, literary, and medical representations of hysteria in the Age of Reason, and I am currently exploring the relationship between illness and creativity in a group of women writers. Though I rely heavily on print texts not yet digitized, I use various databases (including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Google Books, JSTOR, and MLA bibliography) frequently in my research and teaching. </div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">on the condition</ins>. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">omitting an </del>exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. This search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes </del>accounts in various forms, including <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fiction</del>, confessional <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poetry</del>, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">narratives </del>I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando textbase.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">scaling back on my </ins>exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. This search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">seek out </ins>accounts in various forms, including <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">fictional works</ins>, confessional <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">poems</ins>, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">works </ins>I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando textbase.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">by women </ins>on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, make connections between authors, </del>and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">to </del>this initial exploration. I expect that the British Library, the Wellcome Collection, and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) will house most of the works I will use in the later stages of my work. </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">in </ins>this initial exploration. I expect that the British Library, the Wellcome Collection, and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online (ECCO) will house most of the works I will use in the later stages of my work. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Discovery: The first phase of this project is exploratory. I hope to unearth women’s texts on hysteria that have been hitherto neglected. Various searches on the Orlando textbase will aid me in this process. If funding allows, I will hire a student assistant to work with me in this <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">initial </del>stage.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Discovery: The first phase of this project is exploratory. I hope to unearth women’s texts on hysteria that have been hitherto neglected. Various searches on the Orlando textbase will aid me in this process. If funding allows, I will hire a student assistant to work with me in this <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">early </ins>stage.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. This search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">Project</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. This search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">textbase</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I hope this </del>search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando Project.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This </ins>search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando Project.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials on eighteenth-century hysteria. Second, I will produce a complementary critical study that establishes a link between hysteria and creativity in some women writers – a relationship critics have already explored widely in the works of many male authors (consider research on the ways Jonathan Swift’s fears of madness, Samuel Johnson’s dark thoughts, James Boswell’s painful self-analysis, William Cowper’s terrors of damnation, or Christopher Smart’s religious mania spark their creativity and enrich their art).</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Dialogues: Both through my primary readings, and through connections discovered on Orlando, I will look for direct dialogues between women writers, and I will explore how their ideas <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">are </del>circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Dialogues: Both through my primary readings, and through connections discovered on Orlando, I will look for direct dialogues between women writers, and I will explore how their ideas circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Contexts: Using Orlando as a starting point, I will investigate the larger biographical, historical, medical, and social contexts within which the women writers were producing their ideas. <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">This will, </del>I hope<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, </del>enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>Contexts: Using Orlando as a starting point, I will investigate the larger biographical, historical, medical, and social contexts within which the women writers were producing their ideas. I hope <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">this will </ins>enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|field = English</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|field = English</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>-</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|selfDescription = </div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|selfDescription = <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">I am a literary scholar and teacher specializing in eighteenth-century literature and women’s writing. My most recent work focuses on cultural, literary, and medical representations of hysteria in the Age of Reason, and I am currently exploring the relationship between illness and creativity in a group of women writers. Though I rely heavily on print texts not yet digitized, I use various databases (including Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, Google Books, JSTOR, and MLA bibliography) frequently in my research and teaching. </ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|project = Most of my work to date has focused on recovering and analyzing materials on eighteenth-century hysteria (a condition akin to modern depression). I have looked at the ways a select group of women writers engage with contemporaneous medical writing. More specifically, I have considered how the women's versions of hysteria both intersect and collide with received medical wisdom that described the condition as rooted in wandering wombs, weak nerves, and inherently disordered female bodies. Though I have used online materials to analyze medical treatises, my study of women authors has happened in the stacks. Much of the women’s writing on hysteria is scattered throughout letters, journals, and diaries absent from databases, and my work has been constrained by the limited number of print texts available to me.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. I hope this search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando Project.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by omitting an exploration of male doctors’ accounts of hysteria, and focusing instead on a larger, more comprehensive selection of texts by women authors. A considerable task will involve searching for relevant primary material. I hope this search will reflect the ‘protean’ nature of eighteenth-century hysteria as I undertake a cross-generic inquiry that includes accounts in various forms, including fiction, confessional poetry, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement narratives I have already explored – by Elizabeth Freke, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Piozzi, Elizabeth Carter, and Mary Wollstonecraft – with relatively obscure texts by women discovered through the Orlando Project.</div></td></tr>
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