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Unraveled and Rewoven Ties: Women (Proto)comparatists in the Networks of the First International Journal of Comparative Literary Studies
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Abstract: The article uncovers a previously neglected network of early women comparatists whose contributions to Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum fundamentally shaped the emerging discipline of comparative literature. Moving beyond tokenistic recovery, it highlights the intellectual agency and methodological innovations of figures like Dora d’Istria, Lucy Lloyd, Teréz Tini, and Helene von Meltzl. By applying an intersectional lens, it reveals how gender, ethnicity, and class structured both visibility and exclusion in the journal’s transnational network. The study also reframes the Acta Comparationis not as a solitary intellectual endeavor but as a dynamic interface of weak ties that catalyzed comparative thought across cultural peripheries. This approach not only challenges foundational myths of the discipline but also proposes a new, networked understanding of early literary comparatism.
Keywords: Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum, early women comparatists, Dora d’Istria, Helene von Meltzl, Teréz/Theresie Tini, Lucy Lloyd, early networks of comparative literature
Acknowledgement: This work was funded by the EU’s NextGenerationEU instrument through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Romania—Pillar III-C9-18, through the project A Global History of Romanian Comparatism: A Case Study in Inter-Imperial Comparative Literature (1877–1944), PNRR-III-C9–2023-I8-CF 22/27.07.2023, contract no. 760276/26.03.2024.
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