Artikel
Mothers, wives and daughters speak : the recovery of Anglo-Saxon women in Ann Hawkshaw's "Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History"
Verfasst von:
Bark, Debbie
in:
Women's writing
Wallingford:
2012
,
404 - 416 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Ariadne | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Bark, Debbie |
| In: | Women's writing |
| Jahr: | 2012 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Beschreibung: | |
| In Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History (1854), a sequence of 100 sonnets retelling the history of Britain from the advent of its earliest inhabitants through to the Norman Conquest, Ann Hawkshaw makes an assured interjection into the conventional narratives of Anglo-Saxon historiography. With each sonnet faced on the page by a short prose extract from the work of prominent contemporary historians of the Anglo-Saxon period, such as Sharon Turner and Francis Palgrave, or from early nineteenth-century translations of Anglo-Saxon texts, Hawkshaw draws attention to the practice of popular nineteenth-century historiography. Through the sonnets that follow, Hawkshaw reworks the conventional historical narrative by way of a more intimate and personalized perspective. By moving away from both the masculine historical narrative and the genre of historical biography made popular by female historians of the Anglo-Saxon period, such as Hannah Lawrance and Mrs Matthew Hall, Hawkshaw finds freedom in the imaginative space of the sonnet to give Anglo-Saxon women a voice. Through close analysis of a selection of sonnets, this article shows how Hawkshaw repositions mothers, wives and daughters in a national narrative that habitually omits or marginalizes their contribution to British history. | |
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