I’m thrilled to have had my first academic book review published.
This is my review of ‘Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona: Incarnations and Contestations’, edited by Kirsti Niskanen, Michael J. Barany, for the ‘Emotion, Space and Society’ Journal.
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As my chosen research covers texts released at various points throughout the Nineteenth Century, I thought creating a timeline may assist with recognising significant events that occurred alongside the publication of these texts.
As my research is specialising in the presence of male hysteria in Nineteenth-Century literature, I need to conduct my research using language of the period to get the results I need.
With the basic ideas for my dissertation in place and background reading well underway, I seek the opinions of my lecturers before taking my research further.
31st October 2018
As I sit in the library making my way through the reading material I have gathered thus far, I hit the wall. Not literally of course, but I find myself overwhelmed by the enormity of my task.
“[T]he invention of madness as a disease is in fact nothing less than a peculiar disease of our civilization.” (David Cooper’s Introduction to Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault)
2018 marks the bicentenary of the birth of Emily Brontë and this publication was produced by the Brontë Society as part of their celebrations for the year. It contains responses to Emily’s only novel, Wuthering Heights, by some of her many fans – including myself.
Below is the article I wrote in early 2018 which was published in September 2018.
Holly Royle 