Francesca Blanch-Serrat- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Autonomous University of Barcelona
Francesca Blanch-Serrat
- Doctor of Philosophy
- PostDoc Position at Autonomous University of Barcelona
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Introduction
Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Member of the ERC-funded Project WINK. Researching women’s literary history and older age and ageing in the long c18; Gender, Queer, and Age studies. Interested in the intergenerational relationships that highlight the figure of the elderly woman mentor, the intersection of age, gender and singlehood (the old maid), and the impact of age and ageing in the reception of elderly women writers.
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February 2019 - present
October 2018 - February 2019
Education
October 2016 - June 2017
September 2013 - May 2014
September 2011 - June 2016
Publications
Publications (10)
In 1780 the English translator and essayist Eliza Ball Hayley (b.1750-1797) published Essays on Friendship and Old-Age, by the Marchioness de Lambert. The text was a translation of two of the many philosophical treatises written by the French philosopher Anne-Thérèse de Lambert (1647-1733). Addressing the chronological, linguistic, and geographical...
Anna Seward (1742-1809) made detailed plans toward her posthumous legacy in the last decades of her life through the compilation and editing of her poetical works and letter books, as well as the negotiations for their publication. In having her life’s work and correspondence published after her death, Seward challenged societal and literary expect...
Anna Seward (1742-1809) was an English intellectual, poet, and literary critic. Once celebrated as "th'immortal muse of Britain" (1811:147), she held a central position both within her native Lichfield's thriving cultural life and amongst a nationwide network of intellectuals, artists, and scientists in the second half of the eighteenth century. Th...
Conference programme elaborated by Cleo O'Callaghan Yeoman (Universities of Stirling, Glasgow and Edinburgh), Dr Amanda Blake Davies (University of Derby) and Yu-Hung Tien (University of Edinburgh).
Andrea Charise’s The Aesthetics of Senescence: Aging, Population, and the 19th-Century British Novel constitutes a thorough study of the evolution of the biopolitics (a theoretical framing that places the biological life of individuals at the center, engaging with it as a political problem) of older age and its literary representations. It offers a...
This presentation is concerned with male writers authoring or editing eighteenth-century women authors’ autobiographical accounts. In their role as critics and cultural agents, these men distorted the public image these writers had intended to consolidate, altering thus their authorial identity for posterity, and often contributing to their critica...
Anna Seward (1742-1809) and Helen Maria Williams (1761-1827) were known by their contemporaries as “th’immortal muse of Britain” and “an intemperate advocate of Gallic licentiousness” respectively; Seward was celebrated for her patriotic elegies while Williams was criticized for her chronicles on the French Revolution. Despite such opposed reputati...
In 1786 an anonymous correspondent appealed to Samuel Johnson’s biographer James Boswell in the pages of the Gentleman’s Magazine. Behind the pseudonym Benvolio was Anna Seward (1742‒1809), one of the prominent poetical voices of Britain at the time. From 1786‒87 and 1793‒94, Seward and Boswell engaged in a public and gradually acrimonious dispute...
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Anna-Seward
