Womens Writing in French and Italian Literature of the 18th and 19th century
Third Party Funds Group - Sub project
Start date : 01.05.2009
End date : 30.04.2013
Website: http://www.cost.eu/COST_Actions/isch/IS0901
Project details
Short description
The main objective of the Action is to create a strong collaborative international Research Network and to produce a Road Map outlining future systematic collaborative research in European women's literary history. The historiography of literature needs renewal. In particular women's contribution to European literary practice can and must be accounted for in a much more adequate way than current literary histories do. The COST Action lays the foundation for an innovative European-scale approach to this problem. The neglect of women as cultural agents is indeed an international phenomenon, directly relating to gender inequality in modern society. International cooperation is needed in order to change things and demonstrate that women's growing presence, since the Middle Ages, prepared the way for their massive entrance into the literary field during the 20th century.
