Introduction: Intergenerational Thinking

Authors

Katherine Binhammer, University of Alberta Department of English and Film StudiesFollow

Author Biography

Katherine Binhammer is a Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Her most recent work includes Downward Mobility: The Form of Capital in the Sentimental Novel (Johns Hopkins UP, 2020) and essays on feminist literary history, gender and sexuality in Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and The De Gruyter Handbook of the British Novel in the Long Eighteenth Century. She is Literary Director of The Orlando Project and is currently co-writing the first volume of the four volume Orlando’s Feminist Literary History of Women’s Writing in the British Isles (under contract, Cambridge University Press).

Abstract

This introduction to a conversation on Intergenerational Thinking that first began at the American Society of Eighteenth Century Studies in Toronto, March 2024, establishes the importance of dialogue across generations in feminist eighteenth-century studies. It synthesizes the methods the participants engage to think with past scholars, rather than disavow such work. While the topics discussed are diverse -- feminist history, Phillis Wheatley, Indigenous eighteenth-century archives, climate catastrophe and Charlotte Charke – the writers share an approach to generational thinking grounded in a critique of the assumption that the new is always better.

Keywords

Critical approaches, Generational feminism, feminist history, Phillis Wheatley, environmental studies, queer and trans* studies, Indigenous studies

Recommended Citation

Binhammer, Katherine (2024) "Introduction: Intergenerational Thinking," ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830: Vol.14: Iss.2, Article 17.
http://doi.org/10.5038/2157-7129.14.2.1419
Available at: https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/iss2/17