Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir

A Tale of a Fool? (eBook, ePUB)

A Microhistory of an 18th-Century Peasant Woman

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A Tale of a Fool? explores the life of Guðrún Ketilsdóttir, a peasant woman born in Iceland around 1759, and addresses the question of the methods, priorities and interpretations applied in collecting, cataloguing and the publication of women's writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351668101
• Artikelnr.: 55711567

Autorenporträt

Guðný Hallgrímsdóttir is an independent scholar at the Reykjavík Academy, Iceland, working on a variety of subjects concerned with women's manuscripts. She is a former member of the board of the Icelandic Association of Historians and the Icelandic Studies Association.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: women in a men's world
Chapter 1 One woman, one story
Chapter 2 Early years
Chapter 3 In service: clever and well behaved
Chapter 4 Employment on her own terms
Chapter 5 When one door closes, another opens
Chapter 6 Guðrún at her professional peak
Chapter 7 Illugi Jónsson - a wolf in sheep's clothing?
Chapter 8 Alone again
Chapter 9 We all grow more craven with age
Chapter 10 Auction of Guðrún's worldly goods
Chapter 11 The bigger picture
Chapter 12 History of the manuscripts