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

ISBN-13: 9780415787192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 172 str.

Angharad Eyre; Jane Mackelworth; Elsa Richardson

Opis

Originally 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. Constance Maynard (1849-1935) rose to prominence as the first Mistress and Principal of Westfield College, holding that position from 1882 to 1913. However, her writings offer more than an insight into the movement for women s higher education. As pioneering feminist scholars such as Martha Vicinus have discovered, Maynard s life writings are a valuable source for scholars of gender and sexuality. Writing about her relationships with other women 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. Interdisciplinary in nature, they use the approaches of literary studies, architecture studies, and life writing to understand Maynard and her historical significance. This book was originally published as a special issue of Women s History Review. "

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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