Mapping Biographical Criticism of Victorian Women Novelists, 1897: Diverse Approaches through One Book, Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign
Talia Schaffer, “Inventing Feminist Victorianist Criticism”
Caterina Colomba, “Translating WNQVR Into Italian”
Alison Booth and Isabel Bielat, “Women Novelists Re-Presented for Victoria’s Jubilee”
Lloyd Sy, “BESS Friends: Mid-Range Reading as Data”
Karen Bourrier, “Mornington Crescent: A Miniature Portrait”
Held online
May 17, 2022, 11:00 – 12:30 EDT
Please come to the organizers’ roundtable for papers intended for a cluster in Victorian Studies as Talia Schaffer, Caterina Colomba, Alison Booth, Isabel Bielat, Lloyd Sy, and Karen Bourrier analyze the global, theoretical, and geographical reach of a foundational volume of collective feminist criticism, Women Novelists of Queen Victoria’s Reign (London: Hurst & Blackett, 1897). Registration link: https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMkdOmoqjkqHNU8rm1DkFMzi_espgOLHKFl
About this book: see Collective Biographies of Women
For background: see Alison Booth, Isabel Bielat, Lloyd Sy, Valerie Voight, Story Map “Women Novelists Re-Presented for Victoria’s Jubilee”
For information on BESS: see BESS, stand-aside tagging of texts of chapters, e.g. Ch. One, Biographical Elements and Structure Schema
For information on roundtable, contact Alison Booth, ab6j@virginia.edu