Fiona
Murphy
AB (Kenyon
College), PhD (University of California, Berkeley)
Post-Doctoral
Fellow in Eighteenth-Century Literature
Specialization:
British
Literature of the long eighteenth century, women’s literature, print culture
Fiona Murphy’s
current research explores the authorial strategies of Restoration and
eighteenth-century writers who endeavored to open up space in popular discourse
for the public, respectable female author.
Women writers tended to be identified according to a binary of propriety,
either as private, retiring, modest coterie writers or as shamefully-public,
inappropriately-ambitious, sexually-suspect published writers. The authors in this forthcoming study
successfully transcended such pervasive bifurcation by employing various
tactics of deferral, thereby redefining the boundary between working female
writers and retiring aristocratic ones.
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