{"id":2834,"date":"2020-01-31T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T09:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2834"},"modified":"2021-06-03T22:14:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T22:14:07","slug":"cfp-adventurous-wives-in-the-long-eighteenth-century-or-virtue-reconsiderd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2834","title":{"rendered":"CFP – Adventurous Wives in the Long Eighteenth Century: Or Virtue Reconsider’d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Day Conference, University of Southampton<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

19th June 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Charlotte Lennox\u2019s 1752 novel, The Female Quixote<\/em>, an eighteenth-century Countess is horrified when she is asked by the romance-obsessed heroine to relate her \u2018adventures\u2019, professing: \u2018The word adventures carries in it so free and licentious a sound in the apprehensions of people at this period of time, that it can hardly with propriety be applied to those few and natural incidents which compose the history of a woman of honour.\u2019 

The idea that during the long eighteenth century virtuous wives were increasingly relegated to the domestic\/private sphere, their legal and economic identities subsumed into that of their husbands, is a long-standing one. However, recent and ongoing research is challenging the orthodoxy of this narrative and demonstrating that the roles available to married women were more complex, nuanced and dynamic than mainstream assumptions have generally allowed. For example, Elaine Chalus has explored women\u2019s engagement with politics and the electoral process; Joanne Begiato\u2019s examination of the divorce process has shed light on the lived experience of married women; Amy Louise Erikson has interrogated the laws relating to women\u2019s property ownership; and Briony McDonagh has examined inter alia how landowning wives managed the combined duties of married life and estate management. However, research specifically relating to \u2018wives\u2019 is often buried amongst the wider topic of \u2018women\u2019, and cross-disciplinary patterns and conclusions relating purely to married women may be lost or go unrecognised. 

On Friday 19th June, Southampton Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies (SCECS) will host a one-day conference  to bring these revisionist narratives together and examine the role(s) of the wife as seen through the fields of literature, social and economic history, law, art history and material culture. Papers are invited on the following topics:

\u2022 The economic and financial autonomy of women following marriage
\u2022 Feme sole traders
\u2022 The visibility of single versus married women in the literature of the period
\u2022 Wives\u2019 involvement in politics and public life
\u2022 Working wives
\u2022 Women and the divorce process
\u2022 Inheritance and the transmission of property through the female line
\u2022 Trusts, property ownership and separate estate
\u2022 Wives as educators
\u2022 Conduct literature and wives
\u2022 The married woman as literary heroine
\u2022 Quasi-marriages and kept Mistresses
\u2022 The married female body
\u2022 Material culture, fashion and taste
\u2022 Housewifery
\u2022 Wives as guardians of morality and social order
\u2022 The historiography of the wife: change or continuity?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please submit abstracts of up to 500 words with a short bio to the conference organisers Kim Simpson & Alison Daniell adventurousc18wives@gmail.com<\/a> by 1 March 2020.
For future updates follow @AdventurousWiv1<\/strong>

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