received her Ph.D. in English from Tufts University in 2020. She specializes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature, with a particular interest in the ideas of motherhood, women's labor, and theories of colonial modernity. She currently teaches at Seoul National University.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the bounda... more Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging global system, and development of national economies, as well as their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped, concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges. With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the bounda... more Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging global system, and development of national economies, as well as their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped, concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges. With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The... more This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the context of the shifting British colonial relationship with America. I present the coquettish mother as a historically significant literary figure who embodies the rival claims of Enlightenment liberty and the necessity to control national (re-)production via an exploitative, colonial logic that enables ideological formations of domesticity. My analysis of the socially corrective drive captured in these novels suggests that British anxiety over the loss of the American colonies prompted an urgent and ongoing effort to redefine productivity by obscuring the economic consequences of female sexuality.
Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her ... more Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman. Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries, Charlotte Brontë unveils the material — in conjunction with the sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications of femininity and domesticity.
This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the... more This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the context of the shifting British colonial relationship with America. I present the coquettish mother as a historically significant literary figure who embodies the rival claims of Enlightenment liberty and the necessity to control national (re-)production via an exploitative, colonial logic that enables ideological formations of domesticity. My analysis of the socially corrective drive captured in these novels suggests that British anxiety over the loss of the American colonies prompted an urgent and ongoing effort to redefine productivity by obscuring the economic consequences of female sexuality.
Women’s Work and Colonial Domesticity in Villette, 2020
Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move
outwards as she develops her ... more Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman. Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries, Charlotte Bront€e unveils the material — in conjunction with the sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications of femininity and domesticity.
Impossible Motherhood: Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction reveals the mutually con... more Impossible Motherhood: Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between late eighteenth and early nineteenth century discourses of motherhood and the logic supporting British colonial practices around the globe.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the bounda... more Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging global system, and development of national economies, as well as their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped, concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges. With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the bounda... more Edges of Transatlantic Commerce in the Long Eighteenth Century examines and challenges the boundaries of the Atlantic in the eighteenth century, with a particular focus on commerce. Commerce as a keyword encompasses a wide range of documented and undocumented encounters that invoke topics such as shared or conflicting ideas of value, affective experiences of the emerging global system, and development of national economies, as well as their opponents. By investigating what gets exchanged, created, or obscured on the peripheries of transatlantic commercial relations and geography in the eighteenth century, the chapters in this collection reimagine the edge as a liminal space with a potential for an alternative historical and aesthetic knowledge. To ground this inquiry in a more material dimension, the chapters engage specifically with what is being exchanged, sold, or communicated across the Atlantic by exploring ideas that are being shaped, concealed, undermined, or exploited through intricate exchanges. With its contributions from multiple contexts and disciplinary perspectives, Edges of Transatlantic Commerce offers insights into relatively neglected aspects of the transatlantic world to cultivate the value that the edges allow us to conceive.
This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The... more This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the context of the shifting British colonial relationship with America. I present the coquettish mother as a historically significant literary figure who embodies the rival claims of Enlightenment liberty and the necessity to control national (re-)production via an exploitative, colonial logic that enables ideological formations of domesticity. My analysis of the socially corrective drive captured in these novels suggests that British anxiety over the loss of the American colonies prompted an urgent and ongoing effort to redefine productivity by obscuring the economic consequences of female sexuality.
Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her ... more Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman. Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries, Charlotte Brontë unveils the material — in conjunction with the sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications of femininity and domesticity.
This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the... more This article reads Jane Austen's Lady Susan alongside Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette in the context of the shifting British colonial relationship with America. I present the coquettish mother as a historically significant literary figure who embodies the rival claims of Enlightenment liberty and the necessity to control national (re-)production via an exploitative, colonial logic that enables ideological formations of domesticity. My analysis of the socially corrective drive captured in these novels suggests that British anxiety over the loss of the American colonies prompted an urgent and ongoing effort to redefine productivity by obscuring the economic consequences of female sexuality.
Women’s Work and Colonial Domesticity in Villette, 2020
Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move
outwards as she develops her ... more Being motherless and feeling homeless, Lucy Snowe continues to move outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman. Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries, Charlotte Bront€e unveils the material — in conjunction with the sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications of femininity and domesticity.
Impossible Motherhood: Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction reveals the mutually con... more Impossible Motherhood: Ruses of British Colonialism and Domestic Fiction reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between late eighteenth and early nineteenth century discourses of motherhood and the logic supporting British colonial practices around the globe.
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outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman.
Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries,
Charlotte Bront€e unveils the material — in conjunction with the
sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges
on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines
Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and
the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and
reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts
at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications
of femininity and domesticity.
outwards as she develops her economy-driven mind as a working woman.
Through a seemingly detached protagonist’s travels across national boundaries,
Charlotte Bront€e unveils the material — in conjunction with the
sentimental — foundations of the idea of British domesticity that hinges
on exploitative economic practices at home and abroad. This article examines
Lucy’s development as a constant struggle with mother figures and
the domesticity they represent in the novel. While Lucy questions and
reconstructs the idea of home through her work, her international attempts
at romance with Dr John and M. Paul demonstrate the colonial implications
of femininity and domesticity.