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Documenting Gender Equity in Renaissance Anthologies: A Study of the Contemporary Anthologization of Early Modern Women Authors

机译:在文艺复兴时期选集中记录性别平等:早期现代女性作家的当代人类学研究

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This dissertation is devoted to the evolution of the inclusion of women's writing in the present-day literary canon of the English Renaissance and the influence of concerns about gender equity on the formation of contemporary anthologies of Renaissance literature. As a social principle, equity means equal access to a society's opportunities and resources, such as in schooling (Ferguson). The exclusion of women from writing, publishing, and otherwise participating in the literary tradition and its cultural advantages has been recognized as a central problem for some time in English studies, one that scholars have worked to redress. Lack of gender equity is particularly a problem in those literary traditions of earlier periods, when women were actively discouraged from gaining literacy and rarely granted access to publishing outlets for their writing. Such was the case during the Renaissance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when male writers, like William Shakespeare, had more publishing rights and opportunities than their fellow female authors, like Virginia Woolf's posited "Judith Shakespeare," a figure who suggests that the Renaissance remains an important construction site for achieving contemporary ideals of gender equity.;These inequalities have often been cemented by the modern textbooks used to teach literature, which feature mostly male authors. Moreover, textbooks of literature embody what John Guillory has called the "cultural capital" of the literary canon because, according to Guillory, "the school" is the primary location where literary canons are formed and perpetuated. Therefore, various critics and editors such as Barbara Pace and Paul Lauter have called for revision of the exclusively biased "textbook canon." Much revision of the traditional university literature curriculum with attention to racial and gender equity has been accomplished, primarily by recovering women and minority writers and by including in anthologies more representative selections of their work. In the field of Renaissance studies, various scholars have also answered this imperative (Callaghan), resulting in many changes in Renaissance literature anthologies. However, except for contemporary anthologies of Renaissance drama, which have been explored by Lopez and others, there has been little study of the contemporary formation of the textbook canon of Renaissance literature, which includes many genres other than plays. This inquiry is devoted to examining how gender equity has (or has not) been achieved in the contemporary textbook canon of Renaissance literature. In order to assess the various kinds of editorial interventions that have been performed regarding the anthologization of early modern women authors, I apply statistical models for anthologies from Pace, Kuipers, and others.;Because the anthology was also a popular form of publication in the Renaissance, I detail the minimal presence of women authors in the earliest English Renaissance poetry collections, like Tottel's Miscellany (1557), and subsequent landmark collections like Palgrave's Golden Treasury (1861). My primary area of investigation, however, is the last several decades of the present, where I survey a range of Renaissance textbook anthologies published during this time. Some of these anthologies, like the Renaissance sections in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, are studied diachronically to reveal relevant changes across editions. Other anthologies are studied synchronically, grouping them by genre or theme. Within individual anthologies, I investigate such areas as the inclusions and exclusions of given authors and texts; the editorial organization, sourcing, presentation, and abridgment of selections; the role of editors' introductions, headnotes, and bibliographies; various anthology paratexts, such as dust jackets and marketing materials; and other relevant statistical proportions and related evidence that may suggest how contemporary editors and publishers have been motivated by concerns about gender equity. Necessary literary and cultural history also are referenced as needed, such as the differences between the period terms "Renaissance," "Elizabethan," and "early modern," when deployed in anthologies' titles.;Regarding its theoretical methodology, this investigation is located at the intersection of two existing areas of literary study: the advocacy research of the "recovery movement" (the sector of contemporary canon studies devoted to recovering female authors and their works) and the cultural study of Anglo-American university textbooks, specifically the anthologies published as textbooks for college courses in literature. I employ a "mixed method" (combined qualitative/quantitative methodology) also known as "attending to the anthology's 'soft figures'" (Kuipers, "Contemporizing"). The effective starting point is the post-war period when canon-making relocated to the university, and the canon-making college textbook anthology first appeared. Of the dozens of published post-WWII anthologies of English Renaissance, I analyze altogether about 30, dividing them into four general categories based on three variables: relative size and market reach (number of selections, audience, sales figures, re-editions); gender inclusivity (male-only, mixed gender, female-only); and overall design. (Abstract shortened by ProQuest.).
机译:本文致力于英国文艺复兴时期当今文学经典中女性写作的演变,以及对性别平等的关注对文艺复兴时期当代文学选集的影响。作为一项社会原则,平等意味着平等地获得社会的机会和资源,例如在学校学习(弗格森)。在一段时间以来的英语研究中,将女性排斥在写作,出版或以其他方式参与文学传统及其文化优势之外的问题已被视为一个主要问题,这是学者们努力解决的问题。在早期的那些文学传统中,缺乏性别平等尤其是一个问题,当时人们积极地劝阻妇女扫除文盲,并且很少准予她们发表论文。在十六和十七世纪的文艺复兴时期就是这种情况,当时像威廉·莎士比亚(William Shakespeare)这样的男性作家比女性作家(如弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫(Virginia Woolf)所假定的“朱迪斯·莎士比亚”(Judith Shakespeare))拥有更多的出版权和机会。仍然是实现当代男女平等理想的重要建筑工地。;这些不平等现象经常被用来教授文学的现代教科书所巩固,这些教科书中大多数是男性作家。此外,文学教科书体现了约翰·吉洛里(John Guillory)所说的文学经典的“文化之都”,因为根据吉洛里(Guillory)的说法,“学校”是形成和延续文学经典的主要地点。因此,诸如芭芭拉·佩斯(Barbara Pace)和保罗·劳特(Paul Lauter)之类的许多评论家和编辑都呼吁修订完全有偏见的“教科书教规”。传统大学文学课程的大部分修订都着重于种族和性别平等,这主要是通过使妇女和少数民族作家复苏,以及在选集中纳入更多具有代表性的作品来完成的。在文艺复兴研究领域,各种各样的学者也回答了这一命令(卡拉汉),导致文艺复兴文学选集发生了许多变化。但是,除了洛佩兹等人探索的当代文艺复兴时期戏剧选集外,很少研究文艺复兴时期文学教科书经典的当代形式,其中包括戏剧以外的许多流派。这项探究致力于研究在文艺复兴时期文学的当代教科书中如何实现(或没有实现)性别平等。为了评估针对早期现代女性作家的选本进行的各种编辑干预,我采用了佩斯,库伊珀斯等人选集的统计模型;因为选集也是该出版物的一种流行形式。在文艺复兴时期,我详细介绍了英国文艺复兴时期最早的诗歌集(例如托特尔的《杂记》(1557年))和后来的地标性收藏集(例如帕尔格雷夫的《金库》(1861年))中女性作家的人数很少。但是,我主要的研究领域是目前的最后几十年,在此期间,我调查了这段时期出版的一系列文艺复兴时期教科书选集。这些选集中的一些选集,例如《诺顿英语文学选集》中的“文艺复兴”部分,经过历时的研究以揭示各个版本之间的相关变化。同步研究其他选集,按类型或主题对其进行分组。在个人选集中,我研究了特定作者和文本的包含与排除。编辑组织,选集,介绍和取消选择;编辑的介绍,标题和书目的作用;各种选集,例如防尘套和市场营销材料;以及其他相关的统计比例和相关证据,可能表明当代编辑和出版商是如何受到对性别平等的关注所激发的。还根据需要引用必要的文学和文化历史,例如在文选标题中使用“文艺复兴时期”,“伊丽莎白时代”和“早期现代时期”这两个时期之间的区别。关于其理论方法,本次调查位于在文学研究的两个现有领域的交汇处:“复兴运动”的倡导研究(当代经典研究领域致力于恢复女性作家及其作品)和英美大学教科书的文化研究,特别是文选作为大学文学课程的教科书出版。我采用了一种“混合方法”(定性/定量方法相结合),也被称为“参加选集的'软人物'”(Kuipers,“当代”)。有效的起点是战后时期,佳能制造重新安置到大学,并且经典的大学教科书选集首次出现。在第二次世界大战后出版的英国文艺复兴的数十种选集中,我一共分析了30种选集,根据三个变量将它们分为四大类:相对规模和市场范围(选拔数,听众,销售数字,再版);性别包容性(仅限男性,混合性别,仅限女性);和整体设计。 (摘要由ProQuest缩短。)。

著录项

  • 作者

    Al-Shara'h, Mais Nayel.;

  • 作者单位

    Indiana University of Pennsylvania.;

  • 授予单位 Indiana University of Pennsylvania.;
  • 学科 British Irish literature.;Literature.;Womens studies.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2018
  • 页码 173 p.
  • 总页数 173
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 宗教;
  • 关键词

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