Amelia Sanz
amsanz@ucm.es
This working group makes it possible to study the contemporary reception of women authors. It does so by making available research, methodologies, digital resources and tools related to the topic.
In detail this means literature, press, book, translation, culture and women’s historians as well as an appropriate methodology/tool for studying women’s literary/written production together with its reception by male, female and anonymous readers – taking into account their respective roles as readers, critics, literary historians, etc.
This is meant in particular for the periods for which much of women’s published production has “disappeared”, so that the “dialogue” between the women writers and their readers needs to be restored and documented before we can actually research it (i.e. until the early 20th century).
The NEW VRE provides the basis for this; it will be complemented by a number of features to be discussed, tested, implemented and demonstrated.
Working group website: http://www.womenwriters.nl
“Because I had something to say”, is an exibition of the works of 19th Century Female Authors. It is organised by the HERA TT project (http://travellingtexts.huygens.knaw.nl), which is one of the origins of the newly set up DARIAH working group Women Writers in History. It can be visited in the Utrecht Public Library, and features … Continue reading
Amelia Sanz
amsanz@ucm.esSusan van Dijk
suzan.van.dijk@huygens.knaw.nl