(De) writing women in the canon of british postgraduate studies

Abstract: Lessons on literature written in English have tended to focus on male writers, being dominated by authors such as Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Coleridge or Joyce. Men govern literature syllabuses, or what is the same, the canon of English literature. Although universities are inhabited by numerous female students and professors, the writers dealt with still seem to be predominantly male. For this reason, the present paper intends to check empirically if this common assumption is true. To do so, it will focus on the postgraduate programmes offered by half the British universities’ English departments, taking into account two major parameters: the university type (ancient, red brick or new) and the period/subject the master deals with (Romanticism, the Victorian period, the 20th century and colonial, «national» and women’s literatures)

• Autores: Cano López, Marina
• Tipo de recurso: Article of journal
• Fecha de publicación: 2007
• Institución: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Repositorio: Universidad Nacional de Colombia
• Idioma: spa
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.unal.edu.co:unal/55282
• Acceso en línea: https://repositorio.unal.edu.co/handle/unal/55282; http://bdigital.unal.edu.co/50628/
• Palabra clave: 3 Ciencias sociales / Social sciences; Literary canon; Women writers; Postgraduate studies; British universities; University syllabuses; Canon literario; Escritoras; Estudios de postgraduado; Universidades británicas; Programas universitarios; Mujeres en la literatura
• Rights: openAccess
• License: Atribución-NoComercial 4.0 Internacional