Jess Samuel

Thesis title:

Radical Consciousnesses: Stylistic innovation and progressive politics in fin-de-siecle periodicals 1890-1920

This thesis traces the relationship between stylistic play and socioeconomic/political polemic in the work of women writers between 1880-1920. More specifically, I consider occurrences of ‘radical consciousness’ in a variety of literature chiefly published via periodical culture in Britain during this time frame. Radical consciousness is a term I use to describe representations of a character’s subjectivity, shaped by progressive writers in a direct effort to communicate their ideas.

Research Area

English Language and Literature
Languages and Literature

Conferences

'You don’t know Connie’: Margaret Harkness and the Woman Worker in Labour Elector, Margin/Limit/Periphery/Edge, RSVP, September 2022.
'New Woman fiction and feminist thinking in the Yellow Book, 1894-1895', Radical Print: Work in Progress @ PPCRG Radical Print Summer School 2023, 16 - 19 May 2023.
'Radical Politics and Technical Innovation in Margaret Harkness’s ‘Connie’ (1893–1894)','Hidden Histories / Recovered Stories' VPFA Annual Conference, Bishop Grosseteste University, 12-14 July 2023.
'Socialist-feminist fictions: Margaret Harkness, ‘girl labour’, and the power of the radical press', BAVS Conference 2023, University of Surrey, 31 August - 2 September 2023.
''I pity these girls the most': Margaret Harkness' girl-labourer heroines', Snapshots: New Work on Margaret Harkness, December 2023

Memberships

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)

British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS)

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Radical Consciousnesses: Stylistic innovation and progressive politics in fin-de-siecle periodicals 1890-1920

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