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@shadowmanzier DH gives us some tools to negotiate challenge of isolated case, resituate the work and the humans in their contexts. Also experiencing the actual labor (like Cait) can assist us, as well as experiencing the texts directly (shout out to EBBA) #wbh18
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If you'd like us to make these talks and slides more public-facing, please "like" or respond to this post. I'm looking into how to best circulate in ways that allow us to best wrangle/share fairly. #wbh18
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@shadowmanzier - finally, the dangers of our own invisibility. We need to make our databases, archives, collections, and labor far far more visible. Is our field a niche study or a transformative/disruptive one? THAT IS UP TO US. #wbh18
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#wbh18 awards: longest without going over: Peter Sabor. Largest PPT: Cait Coker. First PPT submitted: @PunkandPoetess and Peter. Tech savior @WincklesCORE Best listener: @Shadowmainzer — and apparently best sound effect is... me?
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@shadowmanzier - a reminder that the 2018 corrallary is the illusion of completeness in digital tools -- and the issue of access for those expensive databases. The paywall as a hiding place #wbh18
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@shadowmanzier the problem of "we don't have any" obscured still by the backlog of cataloguing. Call up Miscellanies, "everything in a large box" (this is my life you guys) #wbh18
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@shadowmanzier "lost in the archive or hiding in plain sight" -- 1983 challenges: inherited cataloguing practices & finding aides (from 19c, etc) modern archivists are loved, but some people from 19c who should be dug up... #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer our assumption that social authorship and coteries as positive elides over the potential vulnerabilities in even those spaces. They are what they are: neither uniformly hostile nor supportive. #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer problem of the "isolated case" - what are the conditions under which women are still invisible that are challenged by this symposium? We undo this by insisting on networks and environment #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer - "she wasn't successful and she did a ton of it" -- how can we warrant the labor it. Takes to recover and curate women's literary labors, especially when they aren't "shiny" #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer how many examples do we need before a pattern ceases to be anomalous? #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer "veil of ubiquity" -- "everyone did it" -- thinking about domestic literary labor: is it harder to see women as working when they form libraries, assist in circulation, edit their own & others texts? Private and domestic are complicated in our time together. #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer 2018 challenge: "there weren't any then... So we needn't look" -- WAS Wheatley the first WOC in Anglo-American literary culture? (See also sexuality, gender expression, etc) #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer the idea of an "anomaly" continues: the "curse of the first" in literary history. 1983 (the Marys - Astell, Wortley Montagh, Wollstonecraft as "first feminists" can we jam them in the canon?) -- "but I kept finding women who were "firster" #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer old stories: myth of Judith Shakespeare, madwoman in the attic, illiteracy of women, separate spheres/angel in the house, autodidact, solitary --- are we still haunted by these stories in our research? (They certainly still in the public discourse!) #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer the old stories: are they the same we used in 80s/90s (recovery phase)? #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer clusters of assumptions, presumptions, & what we know is true: are they true now and same as 1983? #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer - she didn't write it / she shouldn't have wrote it / but look what she wrote about / only wrote one / isn't really art / she had help / she's an anomaly / "she wrote it BUT..." #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer invokes Joanna Russ's How to Suppress Women's Writing (1983) (copy after copy after copy) #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer framework of response: revisiting first experience with the field, issues of authors, methodologies, etc. #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer reiterates that she is surprised to be considered a book historian -- a mantle that feels given not taken. #wbh18
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@Shadowmainzer on "Invisible Women" ("ok so I'm supposed to save you all") #wbh18
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And finally we will have summary remarks from the amazing Margaret Ezell, to be followed by us breaking out into planning for @FolgerLibrary meeting and HLQ Special Issue (and then dinner!) #wbh18
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@austeneconomics a new hermeneutics of suspicion about the wokeness/"generosity" of publishers, patrons, supporters #wbh18
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@austeneconomics how explicit and immediate do we want our politics to be? #wbh18
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@austeneconomics let's also look at MW's Maria as a way to break the silence that STILL shrouds women navigating sexual threat, harassment, etc #wbh18
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@austeneconomics working hypothesis that Fusili's narrative is similar to slander of Mary Hays, and MW's warnings to MH on the subject. Men in one's circle are still dangerous. #wbh18
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@austeneconomics ways forward: MW and sexual harassment/pathologies, even in the "insulated" world of publishing; refuting the Fusili myths and rumors (why TF was HF around in that circle? What's his deal? Why do we believe his story?) ; #wbh18
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@austeneconomics we can see Johnson's work in this circle as perhaps a loss-leader by a man who, as Blake wrote, "leaves no stone unturn'd to serve that interest, and often (I think) unfairly" #wbh18
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