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E-conference
E-conference on European Women’s Writing before 1900
From May 11 to September 21 2007 an electronic conference will be held on the subject of women’s writing and being read in Europe - in particular during the centuries before c. 1900. Outcome of discussions as well as information we hope to receive will be used to contribute to the preparation of a large international collaborative project. We intend to enter into contact with colleagues working in this field and experiencing the need of a common international approach of the matter, in order to exchange ideas and share information.
The conference takes place in the context of the project NEWW: New approaches to European Women’s Writing (2007-2010). This project is based on the assumption that women’s participation in literature and in publishing before 1900 should be studied not only on an international scale, but also from the reception end of the communication. This point of view allows avoiding the literary canon and induces a multiplicity of possible research projects held together by common focus on reception as a starting point. Problem is of course the actual reception material, which generally has been "lost" in the course of history, and has to be found, classified and prepared for future analysis.
Starting at the reception end, in our view, implies random consultation and perusal of large-scale sources such as periodicals, catalogues of private or public libraries, comments in private correspondences etc. These sorts of information are presently being selected and entered into the database WomenWriters for reception of women’s writing in the Netherlands but it needs to be extended to the other European countries. For some of these (e.g. England) much research has already been done and published; for some others (e.g. Russia) it seems clear that many promising sources do exist. For all, it is evident that some decision making will have to take place as for actual sources to be selected and for approaches to be chosen.
In order to include as many arguments as possible in the discussions to be held, we invite researchers to participate in this process. We will be happy to receive your comments, and will try to take them into account for our future plans.
Please contact WomenWriters and ask for access to the electronic forum. When you are a registered user already you can login to the electronic forum here.
Suzan van Dijk, May 2007