Staff profiles
Dr Mary Peace
Phone 0114 225 4205
E-mail m.v.peace@shu.ac.uk
Research interests/current work
My current research is on the figure of the prostitute in eighteenth century sentimental literature and its relationship to the paradoxical development of sentimental discourse over the century. I am also concerned with research into Romantic-era writing by women.
I am currently supervising a PhD thesis on the representation of 'idiocy' in Romantic-era literature.
Research collaborations
Over the past five years I have been involved in co-organising a series of day conferences with the Chawton House project and the University of Southhampton.
Jews and Romanticism (Senate House, February 2006)
Romantic-era Writing for Children (Senate House London, May 2004)
De Stäel's Corinne: A day-conference (Senate House, London, Nov. 2003)
Research outputs since 2001
'The Magdalen Hospital and the Fortunes of Whiggish Sentimentality in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain: 'Well-Grounded' Exemplarity vs. 'Romantic' Exceptionality. The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation (48:2, Summer 2007).
Charles Lucas, The Infernal Quixote, ed. and introduction, Pickering and Chatto, 2004
Founder and editor of Corvey Women Writers on the Web Journal, established 2004
''Epicures in Rural Pleasures': Desire, Dissent and Sentimental Economy in Sarah Scott's 'Millenium Hall 'Dissenting Women' 1350-1800, ed. Claire Jowitt, Women's Writing, 9 (2002)
