Dear all
We'd like to invite you to next week’s 'Romantic Novels 1818' seminar, which will be held on Thursday 19 July at 6pm at the University of Greenwich. Dr Andy McInnes (Edge Hill) will be leading us through a discussion of Susan Ferrier’s novel, Marriage.
This session will take place at the University of Greenwich in room QM268 (see link to campus map here: https://www.gre.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/465729/GRE-MAPS-2017_PUBLISH-GREENWICH.pdf).
Dr Andrew McInnes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Edge Hill University. He researches Romantic-period women's writing, Gothic geographies, and children's literature. He published his first monograph, Wollstonecraft's Ghost: The Fate of the Female Philosopher in the Romantic Period, in 2016. He is currently working on a project connecting Jane Austen's novels, Gothic feelings, and spatiality.
Marriage, Susan Ferrier's 1818 debut novel, celebrates the hybridity of its Anglo-Celtic heroes and heroines, just as Ferrier herself has been celebrated as an authorial hybrid, a female Walter Scott or Scottish Jane Austen. This paper will contextualize Marriage as part of the Scottish National Tale tradition, both inspired by and reacting against Scott's historical fiction, as well as an example of Romantic-period women's writing responding to the works of Jane Austen, or, more precisely, her death. Ferrier's Marriage betrays a deep-seated distrust of female authorship, expressed through satirical accounts of a Bath-based authoress, a group of pretentious Bluestockings, and the authorial attempts, or attempts at authority, of almost all of the novel's female characters.
You don’t need to have read the novel to come along to the seminar, but if you want to, Virago have just published a new edition – details here: https://www.littlebrown.co.uk/books/detail.page?isbn=9780349011219
Or, to get a sense of the text for free, an online version can be found here: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12669?msg=welcome_stranger
Details of our full Romantic Novels 1818 programme are below. We look forward to seeing you on the 19th!
Best wishes
Susan & Claire
http://romantics200.org/event/romantic-novels-1818-series/
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