Tricia Lootens
Associate Professor of English
Creative Research
Medal 2000
Tricia Lootens is author of the book Lost Saints: Silence,
Gender and Victorian Literary Canonization. In her book
she argues that during the Victorian period literary canonization
is surprisingly analogous to the process by which the Roman
Catholic Church identified saints. Both processes immortalized
a person by erasing the historical aspects of his or her self.
Literary canonization, particularly of women, paradoxically
acted to silence the full range of the authors’ literary achievement,
even as it elevated them to realms of “transcendent” genius.
Source: 21st Annual Research
Awards Program (2000)
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