E-mail address: Paula.Yurss@uab.cat
Department & University: English and German Studies, UAB
Brief summary of research interests: My areas of interest are women’s writing, travel writing and the French Revolution. Currently, I am focusing on women’s contribution to political thought during the French Revolution and Napoleonic period.
Selected publications:
- 2023. “‘The cause of liberty still warms my bosom’: Helen Maria Williams’ Nineteenth-Century Political History”. In Séverine Genieys-Kirk and Suzanne Trill (eds.), Women and Gender in the Early Modern World. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN: 978-1-4962-3179-6. Forthcoming, June 2023. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496231796/
- 2023. “‘Rien n’a été plus constant que mon coeur’: Helen Maria Williams’ Souvenirs de la Révolution Française (1827), a Lifelong Commitment to the French Revolution”. Women’s Writing, vol. 31. 3. Forthcoming, September 2023.
- 2022. “The Last King of France’s Letters: The Controversy between Helen Maria Williams and Bertrand de Moleville about the Translation of Louis XVI’s Correspondence”. Enthymema. 31: 91-100. https://doi.org/10.54103/2037-2426/18429