Love, Desire and Melancholy: Inspired by Constance Maynard (1849-1935)

ISBN-13: 9780367133467 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 172 str.

Angharad Eyre; Jane Mackelworth; Elsa Richardson

Opis

Inspired by the digitisation of the autobiographical writings of Constance Maynard, this volume considers women’s historical experience of sexuality through the frame of the history of emotions. Maynard’s life writings are a valuable source for scholars of gender and sexuality, as, writing about her relationships with both teachers and students, Maynard attempted to understand her emotions and desires within the frame of her evangelical religious culture. The contributions to this volume draw out the significance of Maynard’s writings for the histories of gender, sexuality, religion, and the emotions. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women’s History Review.

Spis treści

Introduction – Inspired by Constance Maynard: exploring women’s sexual, emotional and religious lives through their writings  Part I: Constance Maynard  1. Constance Maynard’s Languages of Love  2. Love, Passion, Conversion: Constance Maynard and evangelical missionary writing  3. Religion, Same-Sex Desire, and the Imagined Geographies of Empire: the case of Constance Maynard (1849–1935)  4. Constance Maynard’s Life-Writing Considered as Spiritual Autobiography  5. An Exploration of Religion and Education in the Life of Constance Maynard, Mistress of Westfield College  6. ‘We Must Advance, We Must Expand’: architectural and social challenges to the domestic model at the College for Ladies at Westfield  Part II: Love, Friendship and Desire  7. ‘Sentimental Follies’ or ‘Instruments of Tremendous Uplift’? reconsidering women’s same-sex relationships in interwar Britain  8. ‘Went into raptures’: reading emotion in the ordinary wartime diary, 1941–1946  Part III: Review Essay  9. New Queer Histories: Laura Doan’s Disturbing Practices and the Constance Maynard Archive