Ralph Barnes Grindrod's Slaves of the Needle: An Electronic Scholarly Edition

English Studies;nineteenth-century British literature;Ralph Barnes Grindrod;electronic textual editing

Leitch, Caroline

University of Waterloo

关键词: English Studies;    nineteenth-century British literature;    Ralph Barnes Grindrod;    electronic textual editing;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

This thesis involves both editorial practice and literary analysis. In order to establish an editorial framework for the electronic scholarly edition of Dr. Ralph Barnes Grindrod;;s pamphlet Slaves of the Needle, I examine current issues in electronic textual editing. In the electronic scholarly edition, approximately twelve of the pamphlet;;s thirty-five pages are transcribed and encoded using TEI-based code. The second aspect of my master;;s thesis concerns the depiction of seamstresses in nineteenth-century British literature. Slaves of the Needle provides a non-fiction counterpart to the fictional seamstresses of mid-nineteenth-century literature. Using Slaves of the Needle as a basis for evaluating the accuracy of mid-nineteenth-century characterizations of seamstresses, I show that authors such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, Ernest Jones, and Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna were familiar with the working conditions of seamstresses. By conducting a close reading of certain representations of the seamstress in both fiction and non-fiction, I develop a theory of why the depiction of some aspects of the seamstress story are more accurate than others.