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'''The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.'''<br> <br> | '''The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.'''<br> <br> | ||
- | Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception, independently of the women’s having entered, later on, a literary, historical or feminist canon. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=leprince%20de%20beaumont¬esfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Mme Leprince de Beaumont], provided that searching takes place in large-scale sources:<br> | + | Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception, independently of the women’s having entered, later on, a literary, historical or feminist canon. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=leprince%20de%20beaumont¬esfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&RecCountry_ID=2&pageSize=50&order=r.Year Mme Leprince de Beaumont], provided that searching takes place in large-scale sources, perused completely or for certain periods selected at random:<br> |
* quantitative data<br> | * quantitative data<br> | ||
** lists of [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/buis006popu01_01/index.htm translations]<br> | ** lists of [http://www.dbnl.nl/tekst/buis006popu01_01/index.htm translations]<br> | ||
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** authors' [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=¬esfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=4&source_ID=154&pageSize=50&order=r.Year correspondences] <br><br> | ** authors' [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=receptions&work_authorName=¬esfield=&work_Title=&rec_Year=&Editor_ID=geen&rec_authorName=&Rec_Title=&reference=&media_ID=4&source_ID=154&pageSize=50&order=r.Year correspondences] <br><br> | ||
- | + | This approach has made clear that the Dutch literary field included much more than the [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=knuvelder&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn about five 18th-century women] till recently presented in historiography. While starting at the reading end, we found [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn&page=3 200 names of Dutch 18th-century writing women].<br><br> | |
- | * Dutch literary canon used to include, until recently, about [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=knuvelder&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn five 18th-century women’s names]; <br> | + | |
- | * in this project, while starting at the reading end, [http://www.databasewomenwriters.nl/results.asp?type=authors&year=&authorName=¬esfield=&pseudonym=1&gender=F&professional=&Editor_ID=geen&Country_ID=2&personal=&bibliography=&pageSize=50&order=a.yearBorn&page=3 200 names of Dutch 18th-century writing women] were found.<br><br> | + | |
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Suzan van Dijk, Toward a collaborative research project
Preparing a Transnational and Internet-based Research Project
in Women's Writing (before 1900)
Hyperlinks below refer to the database WomenWriters, which – for the moment – contains in particular material concerning
- French and Dutch women writers,
- Dutch reception of European women’s writing.
Three Starting Points for Women's Literary Historiography:
1.
Women’s literature must be approached from a comparative and transnational angle.
This corresponds to historical realities too often neglected, such as:
- parallel developments
e.g.: birth of women’s journalism
- women's impact and influence transgressing national borders
e.g.: foreign reactions to works of now little known authors, such as Mme Benoist
- the roles women played as cultural transmitters
e.g.: translating works by other women, as well as by men.
This approach requires international collaboration.
2.
The reception of women’s writing in their own day is considered crucial for any attempt to estimate their historical significance.
Authors and texts should be approached from the side of their (international) reception, independently of the women’s having entered, later on, a literary, historical or feminist canon. This allows to do justice to long neglected authors such as Mme Leprince de Beaumont, provided that searching takes place in large-scale sources, perused completely or for certain periods selected at random:
- quantitative data
- lists of translations
- library catalogues
- lists of translations
- comments pretending to represent or influence public opinion
- reviews in the periodical press
- early literary history
- reviews in the periodical press
- individual voices
- authors' correspondences
- authors' correspondences
This approach has made clear that the Dutch literary field included much more than the about five 18th-century women till recently presented in historiography. While starting at the reading end, we found 200 names of Dutch 18th-century writing women.
3.
This large approach corresponds to present possibilities:
- online available:
- information about authors: www.siefar.org
- texts: www.charriere.nl
- and also: information about contemporary reception, which is contained in numbers of documents and inventories accessible on the internet, in particular the periodical press (such as the Dutch Vaderlandsche Letteroefeningen: www.e-laborate.nl), or lists of translations (the one by Buisman in www.dbnl.nl; ex.: translation of Mme Beccari).
- information about authors: www.siefar.org
- possibility to create structures where these information and documents can be assembled per author (ex.: Mme Dunoyer), in a collective enterprise where information and preliminary conclusions are shared and commented.
SOURCES
Different types in different countries:
- France:
- The Netherlands:
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