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<\/a><\/p>\nSPEAKERS:<\/h5>\nHailey LaVoy<\/h2>\n(Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)<\/h5>\nEarly Medieval Women\u2019s Letters<\/h1>\nEphemerality and the Re-mediated Medium<\/h6>\n
(Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame)<\/h5>\nEarly Medieval Women\u2019s Letters<\/h1>\nEphemerality and the Re-mediated Medium<\/h6>\n
Ephemerality and the Re-mediated Medium<\/h6>\n
Early medieval women wrote and received Latin letters. Sometimes assumed to have been not educated enough to write or even confined to the margins of cultural and political discourse, their letters instead reveal that they wrote to both men and women on a variety of topics.\u00a0My dissertation, \u201cWhy have you been silent so long?<\/em>: Women and Letter-writing in Early Medieval Europe, 700-900,\u201d explores the significance of these exchanges, offering a unique insight into the social history of both women and letter-writing. My talk will deal with the epistemological problems (and possibilities) for the study of these women\u2019s letters as media, particularly as regards their transmission. While the original letters upon which I am basing my study have long since been discarded, the texts of the letters were copied by early medieval contemporaries (often in monasteries) into books for preservation and later reference. These manuscripts have been edited and published by modern scholars, further obscuring the original texts by lifting the copied letters from the medieval letter books and rearranging them to fit new chronological or thematic categories imagined by the editors. We will then explore some of the ways through which the texts of women\u2019s letters can be gradually disentangled from modern editions to help reveal the acts and goals of letter-writing as they were perceived in their original contexts.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Virginia Woolf\u2019s most trenchant critique of mainstream journalism, Three Guineas <\/em>(1938), her narrator not only implicates the periodical press in patriarchal violence, but conceptualizes it as a \u201cmincing machine\u201d that turns women\u2019s minds into \u201csausage.\u201d Despite this rejection of the press, Woolf chose to publish a revised version of Three Guineas<\/em> in the American magazine The Atlantic Monthly<\/em>. Although archival materials indicate that Woolf carefully edited Three Guineas<\/em> to create this new version, \u201cWomen Must Weep\u201d is characterized by fragmented prose and incomplete arguments. By attending to formal issues arising from interversional variations, this talk will posit that Woolf published \u201cWomen Must Weep\u201d to extend her critique of mainstream journalism. I demonstrate the ways in which \u201cWomen Must Weep\u201d reveals Three Guineas<\/em> to be as much about periodical culture as it is about the relationship of feminism to pacifism. Moreover, I argue that the Atlantic <\/em>version of Three Guineas<\/em> enacts or performs the original text\u2019s critique of the periodical press and the constraints that it imposes upon the woman writer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Monday, March 4, 2013 5:00 p.m. Room 201 O\u2019Shaughnessy Hall SPEAKERS: Hailey LaVoy (Medieval Institute, University of Notre Dame) Early Medieval Women\u2019s Letters Ephemerality and the Re-mediated Medium Early medieval women wrote and received Latin letters. Sometimes assumed to have been not educated enough to write or even confined to the margins of cultural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-69","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/69\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/newmedia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDenise Ayo<\/h2>\n
(Department of English, University of Notre Dame)<\/h5>\n
Turning Women\u2019s Minds into Sausage<\/h1>\n
Virginia Woolf and The Atlantic Monthly<\/em><\/h6>\n