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PRESCOTT, SARAH
Sarah Prescott is a Senior Lecturer in English at Aberystwyth University. Specialising in eighteenth-century studies, her main research interests include women’s poetry and fiction, Welsh writing in English, authorship, feminist literary history, provincial literary culture, and women’s writing and Wales. She is currently focusing on pre-1800 Welsh writing in English and is working on a book about Anglophone women writers in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Wales entitled The Cambrian Muses: Women Writers and Wales, 1600-1800. Sarah has published work in numerous journals including Modern Philology, Women’s Writing, Huntington Library Quarterly, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Eighteenth-Century Life, Notes and Queries, British Journal of Eighteenth-Century Studies, and The Journal of Women’s Literature.She regularly reviews for a range of journals and newspapers including The Times Literary Supplement, British Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Women’s Writing, New Welsh Review. She is a member of both the editorial board for Blackwell’s on-line journal Literature Compass and the Institute for Medieval and Early Modern Studies c1100-1800 (IMEMS), a collaborative venture involving researchers in the English and History Departments at Aberystwyth and those at the University of Wales, Bangor. Sarah received a UWA Award for Teaching Excellence in 2005. She is a Member of Academi.
Reviews:
With respect to Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (University of Wales Press, 2008)
"…(This) is a brilliant, ground-breaking study of literature and cultural history. Poems and sermons, travel writing and antiquarianism, translation and prose fiction are brought together in a deeply researched account that shows, with persuasive clarity, the sense of Welsh distinctiveness and strength of national feeling during a period usually characterised as one of Anglicisation…(She) gives a Welsh accent to ‘the new British history’. As a guide to the literature she is impeccable: subtle, tenacious, imaginative...This…book deserves the attention not just of scholarly specialists but of everyone with an interest in Wales and its cultural resources..."
John F. Kerrigan, Professor of English, St John’s College, Cambridge
Selected Publications:
Women, Authorship and Literary Culture, 1690-1740 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
Eighteenth-Century Writing from Wales: Bards and Britons (University of Wales Press, 2008)
The Cambrian Muses: Women Writers and Wales, 1600-1800 (University of Wales Press, forthcoming)
Contributed to:
A Companion to Literature from Milton to Blake (contributor) (Blackwell, 2000)
Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 (co-editor) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
’Cultures of Whiggism’, New Essays on English Literature and Culture in the Long Eighteenth Century (contributor) (The University of Delaware Press, 2005)
The History of British Women’s Writing (contributor) (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming)
Welsh Writing in English, 1536-1914 (co-writer) (Oxford Literary History of Wales, forthcoming)
Barddoniaeth Gymraeg gan Ferched, 1500-1800 (contributor) (University of Wales Press, forthcoming)