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Emily Friedman
Emily C. Friedman received her BA from Bryn Mawr College, her MA from the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York, and her PhD from the University of Missouri, where her dissertation was titled "Beginning’s Ends: New Senses of Ending and the Rise of the Novel." She has essays forthcoming on Sarah Fielding in Eighteenth-Century Fiction and in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, was recently in residence as a Chawton House Library Fellow, and is the founder of the Samuel Richardson Society. She is now at work on a manuscript examining eighteenth-century senses of ending.
Her teaching and research interests center on the eighteenth-century. She is particularly interested in the "conversational" aspects of literary works, including notions of adaptation, print culture, book history, correspondence, education, reading practice, and the interaction between performance and prose. Her current research attempts to understand constructions of (and resistance to) ending and closure in the eighteenth century.
Representative Publications
- "'To such as are willing to understand' : Considering Heterogeneity in Fielding’s Imagined Readers" in Masters of the Marketplace: British Women Novelists of the 1750s, edited by Susan Carlile. (essay accepted and volume forthcoming with Lehigh University Press)
- "Remarks on Richardson: Sarah Fielding and the Rational Reader" Eighteenth-Century Fiction (forthcoming Spring 2010, issue 22:3)