- Title
- From manuscripts to metadata: understanding and structuring female-attributed complaints
- Creator
- Coolahan, Marie-Louise; McCarthy, Erin
- Relation
- Early Modern Women's Complaint Gender, Form, and Politics p. 269-290
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42946-1_13
- Publisher
- Springer
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- This chapter addresses the collision of female attribution with questions of digital representation. Early modern compilers of manuscript miscellanies ascribed poems and complaints to a wide spectrum of female-gendered authors, from historically verified to pseudonymous and generic women. Using their experience in building a database for the project RECIRC: The Reception and Circulation of Early Modern Women’s Writing, 1550–1700, the authors describe how they defined, and sought to capture data about, “female-authored” texts. They argue for the careful disentanglement of attribution from ascription, and of both from authorship and poetic voice, and propose new data fields for the differentiation of female-attributed texts. The discussion is illuminated by case studies encompassing contested, anonymous, and pseudonymous authorship, in order to frame non-binary formulations of gender in digital terms.
- Subject
- authorship; attribution; ascription; digital representation; gender
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1442542
- Identifier
- uon:41716
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783030429461
- Language
- eng
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