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|name = Heather Meek<br />
|email = heather.meek@uregina.ca<br />
|role = Assistant Professor<br />
|inst = University of Regina<br />
|field = English<br />
|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
|story = In an ideal scenario, I would use online databases to retrieve written accounts by eighteenth-century women who were amateur medical practitioners of sorts. My analysis of these works would look at the significance of female diagnosticians and healers in eighteenth-century Britain, and to what degree these women had an impact on the medical culture of the time. This type of inquiry would expand on work done by George Rousseau and Roy Porter, who note that widespread medicalization had not yet occurred in this period, and therefore medical knowledge was not limited to physicians; rather, it was shared, open, and somewhat eclectic. This body of women’s writing might be viewed, then, as an alternative discourse that informs our understanding of eighteenth-century medicine. It might also tell us something about the eighteenth-century woman writer’s literary productivity and her varied engagement with themes and genres. <br />
<br />
The scope of my study would depend largely on the number of texts retrieved, but I would narrow my focus by looking at medical issues that were of particular relevance to eighteenth-century women, and by limiting my texts to women’s medical treatises and life-writings. The medical issues of interest might include: hysteria (and other forms of mental illness), chlorosis (which some modern commentators align with anorexia nervosa), miscarriage, and childbirth. The generic boundaries I have established would allow for a multi-layered exploration of the women’s engagement with medical discourse. Medical treatises by female ‘doctors’ would provide descriptions of diagnoses and treatments of real patients. The life-writing, which would comprise the bulk of my primary material, would offer medical information and case studies written by the sufferers themselves. Both genres, I suspect, would offer commentary and criticism on established medical wisdom. <br />
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RESEARCH TOOLS:<br />
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Discovery I: First, I would embark on a search of women who actually practiced medicine in their communities – either as midwives, healers, or dabblers in folk remedies – and wrote about it (Jane Sharp’s treatise on midwifery and Elizabeth Freke’s lists of home ‘recipes’ – contained within her memoirs – are examples of works I would use as starting points in this phase of the study). The current Orlando textbase would provide me with a list of these women.<br />
<br />
Discovery II: I would search for women writers who offer their informal expertise – through narrations of personal experiences, unofficial case studies, and casual anecdotes – within their life-writing. In this phase, the Orlando textbase would provide me with a preliminary list. This list would be rather long as it would be difficult to know for sure whether certain women discuss the relevant issues in their works.<br />
<br />
Selection I: Working from the list of medical treatises (see “Discovery I”), I would use a tool, ideally a new Orlando interface, that would allow me to access the relevant texts online – either through a direct link or by providing the names of databases that I could access on my own. From here, I would create a bibliography of medical treatises.<br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting the list of life-writing (see “Discovery II”), I would work with a database offering full-text versions of eighteenth-century diaries, letters, memoirs, commonplace books, etc. This database would have a tool that would allow me to do detailed searches on the medical issues of interest (hysteria, chlorosis, miscarriage, and childbirth). In this way, I would create a bibliography of life-writing.<br />
<br />
Secondary Research: I would consult a number of databases, including JSTOR and MLA Bibliography. The most useful database, however, would be limited to secondary sources on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critical material, and geared towards literary scholars pursuing interdisciplinary research projects (this database does not exist as of yet). In this phase of my work, I would create a working bibliography of secondary sources.<br />
<br />
Reading, Analysis, and Writing: I would read through my primary and secondary materials, take notes, compile drafts, draw conclusions, and produce a monograph on female diagnosticians and healers in the eighteenth century.<br />
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|scope = These practices are broadly applicable to those working in the fields of literature and medicine, and eighteenth-century women's writing.<br />
|when = Eighteenth Century<br />
|keywords = consider; discover; historicize; Orlando<br />
|related-stories = Legal Advice to Women in the Eighteenth Century; Making 'em Laugh: Images of Law in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture; Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women<br />
|related-tools = ECCO, MLA Bibliography, JSTOR, Orlando, Google Books<br />
}}</div>HeatherMeekhttps://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:Female_Diagnosticians_and_Healers_in_Eighteenth-Century_BritainGeneral:Female Diagnosticians and Healers in Eighteenth-Century Britain2009-11-11T16:04:02Z<p>HeatherMeek: </p>
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|name = Heather Meek<br />
|email = heather.meek@uregina.ca<br />
|role = Assistant Professor<br />
|inst = University of Regina<br />
|field = English<br />
|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
|story = In an ideal scenario, I would use online databases to retrieve written accounts by eighteenth-century women who were amateur medical practitioners of sorts. My analysis of these works would look at the significance of female diagnosticians and healers in eighteenth-century Britain, and to what degree these women had an impact on the medical culture of the time. This type of inquiry would expand on work done by George Rousseau and Roy Porter, who note that widespread medicalization had not yet occurred in this period, and therefore medical knowledge was not limited to physicians; rather, it was shared, open, and somewhat eclectic. This body of women’s writing may be viewed, then, as an alternative discourse that informs our understanding of eighteenth-century medicine. It might also tell us something about the eighteenth-century woman writer’s literary productivity and her varied engagement with themes and genres. <br />
<br />
The scope of my study would depend largely on the number of texts retrieved, but I would narrow my focus by looking at medical issues that were of particular relevance to eighteenth-century women, and by limiting my texts to women’s medical treatises and life-writings. The medical issues of interest might include: hysteria (and other forms of mental illness), chlorosis (which some modern commentators align with anorexia nervosa), miscarriage, and childbirth. The generic boundaries I have established would allow for a multi-layered exploration of the women’s engagement with medical discourse. Medical treatises by female ‘doctors’ would provide descriptions of diagnoses and treatments of real patients. The life-writing, which would comprise the bulk of my primary material, would offer medical information and case studies written by the sufferers themselves. Both genres, I suspect, would offer commentary and criticism on established medical wisdom. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH TOOLS:<br />
<br />
Discovery I: First, I would embark on a search of women who actually practiced medicine in their communities – either as midwives, healers, or dabblers in folk remedies – and wrote about it (Jane Sharp’s treatise on midwifery and Elizabeth Freke’s lists of home ‘recipes’ – contained within her memoirs – are examples of works I would use as starting points in this phase of the study). The current Orlando textbase would provide me with a list of these women.<br />
<br />
Discovery II: I would search for women writers who offer their informal expertise – through narrations of personal experiences, unofficial case studies, and casual anecdotes – within their life-writing. In this phase, the Orlando textbase would provide me with a preliminary list. This list would be rather long as it would be difficult to know for sure whether certain women discuss the relevant issues in their works.<br />
<br />
Selection I: Working from the list of medical treatises (see “Discovery I”), I would use a tool, ideally a new Orlando interface, that would allow me to access the relevant texts online – either through a direct link or by providing the names of databases that I could access on my own. From here, I would create a bibliography of medical treatises.<br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting the list of life-writing (see “Discovery II”), I would work with a database offering full-text versions of eighteenth-century diaries, letters, memoirs, commonplace books, etc. This database would have a tool that would allow me to do detailed searches on the medical issues of interest (hysteria, chlorosis, miscarriage, and childbirth). In this way, I would create a bibliography of life-writing.<br />
<br />
Secondary Research: I would consult a number of databases, including JSTOR and MLA Bibliography. The database which be of most use to me, however, would be limited to secondary sources on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century critical material, and geared towards literary scholars pursuing interdisciplinary research projects (this database does not exist as of yet). In this phase of my work, I would create a working bibliography of secondary sources.<br />
<br />
Reading, Analysis, and Writing: I would read through my primary and secondary materials, take notes, compile drafts, draw conclusions, and produce a monograph on female diagnosticians and healers in the eighteenth century.<br />
<br />
|scope = These practices are broadly applicable to those working in the fields of literature and medicine, and eighteenth-century women's writing.<br />
|when = Eighteenth Century<br />
|keywords = consider; discover; historicize; Orlando<br />
|related-stories = Legal Advice to Women in the Eighteenth Century; Making 'em Laugh: Images of Law in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture; Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women<br />
|related-tools = ECCO, MLA Bibliography, JSTOR, Orlando, Google Books<br />
}}</div>HeatherMeekhttps://cwrc.cs.ualberta.ca/index.php/General:Hysteria_and_Creativity_in_Eighteenth-Century_Writing_by_WomenGeneral:Hysteria and Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Writing by Women2009-11-10T21:11:40Z<p>HeatherMeek: </p>
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|name = Heather Meek<br />
|email = heather.meek@uregina.ca<br />
|role = Assistant Professor<br />
|inst = University of Regina<br />
|field = English<br />
|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.<br />
|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 on the condition. 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.<br />
|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by scaling back on my 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 seek out accounts in various forms, including fictional works, confessional poems, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement works 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.<br />
<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
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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 in 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. <br />
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RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
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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 early stage.<br />
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Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
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Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
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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.<br />
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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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
|scope = These practices are broadly applicable to those working in the fields of literature and medicine, and eighteenth-century women's writing.<br />
|when = Eighteenth Century<br />
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|related-stories = Legal Advice to Women in the Eighteenth Century; Making 'em Laugh: Images of Law in Eighteenth-Century Popular Culture; Female Diagnosticians and Healers in Eighteenth-Century Britain<br />
|related-tools = ECCO, MLA Bibliography, JSTOR, Orlando, Google Books<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 considered how women's accounts 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. The majority of relevant medical literature is online, but the women’s accounts have been harder to track down (most of them are scattered in print versions of letters, journals, and diaries). I will not be able to pursue certain ideas until more of these works become available in digital form.<br />
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|name = Heather Meek<br />
|email = heather.meek@uregina.ca<br />
|role = Assistant Professor<br />
|inst = University of Regina<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 on the condition. 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.<br />
|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by scaling back on my 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 seek out accounts in various forms, including fictional works, confessional poems, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement works 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.<br />
<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
<br />
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 in 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 early stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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 on the condition. 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.<br />
|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by scaling back on my 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 seek out accounts in various forms, including fictional works, confessional poems, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement works 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.<br />
<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
<br />
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 in 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 early stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
<br />
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 in 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 early stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by scaling back on my 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 seek out accounts in various forms, including fictional works, confessional poems, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement works 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.<br />
<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
<br />
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 in 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 early stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
<br />
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|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. <br />
|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 on the condition. 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.<br />
|story = I hope both to narrow and to expand the scope of my earlier work by scaling back on my 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 seek out accounts in various forms, including fictional works, confessional poems, diaries, letters, and political tracts. I expect to complement works 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.<br />
<br />
Two connected projects will emerge from this work. First, I plan to put together an anthology of primary materials by women 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).<br />
<br />
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 in 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 early stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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. <br />
|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.<br />
|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 textbase.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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 Project.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
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 this will enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
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|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.<br />
|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
Dialogues I: 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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
<br />
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|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.<br />
|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.<br />
<br />
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).<br />
<br />
Because of the vast number of texts I am dealing with, I will have to sift through large amounts of information, make connections between authors, and select relevant texts before moving on to a more detailed study of primary sources. The Orlando textbase will be central to 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. <br />
<br />
RESEARCH STEPS AND TOOLS:<br />
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 initial stage.<br />
<br />
Selection I: I will use Orlando summaries of works and authors to narrow down primary texts and create a working bibliography. <br />
<br />
Selection II: Consulting ECCO and library print sources (in Canada and abroad), I will pare down my bibliography of primary materials. At this stage, I will also isolate selections from individual works for the anthology. <br />
<br />
Dialogues I: 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 are circulate within more complex or indirect networks of influence.<br />
<br />
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. This will, I hope, enable an analysis of hysteria’s multiple discourses.<br />
<br />
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