Dr. Linda Van Netten Blimke
Associate Professor, English
I specialize in the literature of the long eighteenth century, with particular focus on British women鈥檚 non-fictional travel writing. My book, Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800 (forthcoming with Bucknell University Press) addresses the discursive constructions of nation and gender in British women鈥檚 sentimental travel writing during the last quarter of the eighteenth century, and specifically during the American and French Revolutions. I have also published articles on the travelogues of Janet Schaw and Mary Morgan, and co-edited an early twentieth-century travel journal entitled Crossing Canada, 1909: Hope Hook鈥檚 Diary (2011).
In addition to eighteenth-century British literature, I teach in the areas of Victorian literature, critical theory, and first-year composition. I received the Faculty of Arts Graduate Teaching Award from the University of Alberta in 2012.
Education
- PhD in English, The University of Alberta (2014)
- Master of Arts in English, The University of Alberta (2008)
Representative Papers and Publications
Books (Authored and Edited)
Political Affairs of the Heart: Female Travel Writers, the Sentimental Travelogue, and Revolution, 1775-1800 (forthcoming with Bucknell University Press).
Hook, Hope. Crossing Canada, 1909: Hope Hook鈥檚 Diary. Eds. Linda Van Netten Blimke, Leilei Chen, Kristine Kowalchuk, Caroline Lieffers, Juliet McMaster. Sydney: Juvenilia Press, 2011.
Articles
鈥� 鈥楢ll seems dreary, savage and desert鈥�: Janet Schaw鈥檚 Journal of a Lady of Quality and American Dystopia.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Studies in Travel Writing, vol. 20, no. 3 (February 2016), 323-338.
鈥溾�楾he Tranquility of a Society of Females鈥�: Mary Morgan鈥檚 A Tour to Milford Haven, Elizabeth Montagu, and the Transformative Politics of Female Governance.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830, vol. 9, no. 2 (2019), n.p.
Select Conference Papers
鈥溾�楾raveling Sentimentally鈥�: Eighteenth-Century British Female Sentimental Travel Writers and Revisions of Genre/Gender.鈥� Western Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Phoenix, 2019.
鈥淪mitten Rebels: Lord Hardwicke鈥檚 Marriage Act and the American Revolution.鈥� American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Orlando, 2018.
鈥�The Politics of Sympathy: Female Sentimental Travel Writers and the American Revolution.鈥�&苍产蝉辫;New Horizons: Reassessing Women鈥檚 Travel Writing, 1660-1900, Alton, 2014.
鈥淭ext, Context, and In-Between: Reflections on Editing a Juvenile Diary.鈥� Co-presented at the International Conference on Literary Juvenilia, Durham, 2013.