MANSFIELD, PA— Teri Doerksen, professor of English at Mansfield University, has had two articles published in
peer reviewed publications.
Her article “A National Bildungsroman: Didacticism and National Identity in Mary Brunton’s Discipline and Susan Edmonstone Ferrier’s Marriage” has been published in Didactic Novels and British Women’s Writing 1790-1820
Mary Brunton and Susan Ferrier are Scottish writers whose books competed with Sir Walter Scott’s and Jane Austen’s. The essay looks at the ways in which British national identity is constructed in these novels about unions between English and Scottish moral values.
Doerksen’s article “Richardson, Celebrity, and Editorial Mediation in Anna Meades’s Sir William Harrington” appears in Eighteenth-Century Fiction, vol. 29, no. 2, Winter 2016-17.
Samuel Richardson is one of the most important novelists on the 18th century, often credited as the first to write about the emotional and intellectual lives of his characters. The article looks at his relationship with one of his few protégés, Anna Meades, and the ways in which the afterlife of her novel reflects current thinking about celebrity and celebrity culture.
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