British Women’s Life Writing, 1760–1840

Culley, Amy

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“…In this sense these drugs were treated as general countermeasure to the various forms of suffering of modernizing life. 29 In this sense, painkillers were born as alternatives-and later on, rivals-of the religious narratives and rituals of pain management.…”

Section: Early Modern Pain: Between Transcendental and Medicalmentioning

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Power from indirect pain: a historical phenomenology of medical pain management

Sík

2020

Cont Philos Rev

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The article aims at reconstructing how pain is used in contemporary societies in the process of engraving power. Firstly, a social phenomenological analysis of pain is conducted: Husserl’s and Merleau-Ponty’s ideas are used for clarifying the experience of pain itself; Elaine Scarry’s analyses are overviewed in order to reconstruct how pain contributes to the establishing of power. Secondly, this complex approach is applied in early modern context: the parallel processes of the decline of a transcendental and the emergence of a medical interpretation of pain is introduced, along with the marginalization of violence. Thirdly, the era characterized by the triumph of medical pain management is analysed: it is argued that the constitutive role of pain in establishing power does not cease to exist with the emergence of technologies of discursive governance (Foucault); it is an open question, what sort of power is engraved through pain understood in strictly medical frames.

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Section: Early Modern Pain: Between Transcendental and Medicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Power from indirect pain: a historical phenomenology of medical pain management

Sík

2020

Cont Philos Rev

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“…114 It constituted a type of life history, but was also vulnerable to loss and decay. 115 In the first instance, therefore, some worshippers put their own tickets on one side at the end of a quarter, perhaps adding them to a small bundle of expired items; it was a habit distinct from (subsequently) collecting them. When tickets outlived their original possessor, it becomes more difficult to establish who kept them and why.…”

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The Religious and Social Significance of Methodist Tickets, and Associated Practices of Collecting and Recollecting, 1741–2017

Lloyd

2019

Hist. J.

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Among all the paper ephemera surviving from eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain, the humble Methodist ticket has attracted little attention from scholars and collectors. Issued quarterly to members as a testimonial to religious conduct, many still exist, reflecting the sheer quantity produced by 1850, and the significance of keeping practices, where Methodist habits were distinctive. This article explores first the origin and spread of tickets primarily within British Methodism, but also noting its trans-oceanic contexts. Apparently inconsequential objects, they shaped experience and knowledge, illuminating eighteenth-century religious life, female participation, and plebeian agency. Discussion then turns to patterns of saving and memorialization that from the 1740s preserved Methodists’ tickets. Such practices extended the lifecycle of the individual ticket and created the accidents of its survival, giving it new uses as an institutional resource. In recovering the dead, it acquired nostalgic value, but other capacities were lost and forgotten. The ticket's origins, uses, and preservation intersect with major historical and historiographical currents to complicate established narratives of print, urban association, and commerce, and to present alternative understandings of collecting.

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“…French Women's Life Writing in Britain, 1680–1830,” shows a shift from the favorable British reception of Madame de Maintenon's memoirs to the vilification of Madame de Genlis's memoirs in the 1820s, which led to a “rejection of French women's life writing more generally” in the post‐Napoleonic period (93). Amy Culley's monograph British Women's Life Writing, 1760–1840: Friendship, Community, and Collaboration includes analysis of British women's memoirs of France in the revolutionary period, which show “highly innovative … generic experiments” and become self‐conscious contributions “to the politics and collective memories of the age” (Culley , 145; see also Culley , 3) so that autobiography, focused on the individual, nonetheless affects bluestockings across time and space to have an impact on the larger narrative of international interest and conflict. Indeed, Gillian Dow focuses on the pan‐European manifestations of life writing as she evaluates bio‐bibliographical accounts from Giovanni Boccaccio (1361–1375) to Mary Hays (1803) and Stéphanie‐Félicité de Genlis (1811) and concludes that “we ignore the prior writing of women's lives – literary history before the term was invented – at our peril” (Batchelor and Dow 210).…”

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Bluestocking Studies 2011–2017: The Transnational Turn

Johns

2017

Literature Compass

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As international trade, exploration, and communication proliferated in the 18th and early 19th centuries, a significant group of British intellectual women, the Bluestockings, came to recognize themselves as part of a transnational network. They were attentive especially to intellectual pursuits, women's cultural, sociopolitical, and economic interests, and various forms of social progress, and some of these preoccupations developed over the period and fed into first‐wave feminist programs later in the 19th century. I consider the extensive Bluestocking scholarship concentrating on transnationalism as well as recent research that has incorporated international themes. The field of bluestocking studies at this juncture forcefully extends the feminist recovery project and, because of its international interest, might help to counter nationalist and anti‐feminist pressures currently challenging the academy.

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British Women’s Life Writing, 1760–1840

Cited by 31 publications

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Power from indirect pain: a historical phenomenology of medical pain management

Power from indirect pain: a historical phenomenology of medical pain management

The Religious and Social Significance of Methodist Tickets, and Associated Practices of Collecting and Recollecting, 1741–2017

Bluestocking Studies 2011–2017: The Transnational Turn

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