Heather Meek
- Professeure titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de littératures et de langues du monde
Pavillon Lionel-Groulx office C-8118
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Affiliations
- Membre – CELCP — Centre de recherche des études littéraires et culturelles sur la planétarité
Areas of Expertise
- 18th Century Literature
- Women's Writing
- History of medicine
- Literature and Medicine
- Women's Studies
- Gender studies
- 18th century
Heather Meek's work explores the intersections of literary and medical cultures in the long eighteenth century, with a particular focus on texts authored by women and physicians. Her publications include investigations of Frances Burney’s early nineteenth-century mastectomy narrative (in Literature and Medicine, 2017); Samuel Richardson’s relationship to the medical milieu of his time (in Samuel Richardson in Context, Cambridge UP, 2017); medical discourse and the origins of the novel (in Literature and Medicine: The Eighteenth Century, Cambridge UP, 2021); eighteenth-century vocabularies of illness (in BMJ: Medical Humanities, 2022); and representations of blood and bloodletting (in Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, 2023). Her monograph, Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain (McGill-Queen’s University Press), appeared in November 2023. With Heike Härting, she is currently completing an edited collection, Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (Routledge), that will appear in March 2024.
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The woman novelist as philosopher : an enquiry into the works of Frances Burney, Ann Radcliffe, and Jane Austen
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2024
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2024
“[O]ur virtues and our vices depend too much on our circumstances” : prostitution as power in John Cleland’s Memoirs of a woman of pleasure
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2023
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2023
Race, mimicry, ambivalence, and third space in The woman of colour : a tale (1808)
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2022
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2022
The "Effect of Education" on kinship ties in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2021
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2021
Why Say No? : Marriage Proposal Rejections in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2020
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2020
The Effect of Collective Psychology on the Mistreatment of Nineteenth-Century Women in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper"
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2019
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2019
Women’s Food Refusal and Feminine Appetites in the long British Eighteenth Century
Thèses et mémoires dirigés
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2018
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2018
Research projects Expand all Collapse all
Les études culturelles et littéraires sur La planétarité: Pratiques, épistémologies, et pédagogies transformatrices Projet de recherche au Canada / 2020 - 2025
Lead researcher :
Heike Harting
Co-researchers :
Simon Harel
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Heather Meek
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Catherine Mavrikakis
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Yves-Marie Abraham
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Karoline Truchon
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Domenico Beneventi
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Catherine Leclerc
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Monica Popescu
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Yasmin Jiwani
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Isaac Bazié
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Raphael Canet
Funding sources:
FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs:
PVXXXXXX-(SE) Programme Soutien aux équipes de recherche - Stade de développement : Nouvelle équipe
Re-Imagining Illness: The British Woman Writer's Medical Knowledge, 1660-1820 Projet de recherche au Canada / 2019 - 2025
Lead researcher :
Heather Meek
Funding sources:
CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs:
PVXXXXXX-Subvention Savoir
Petticoat Doctors and their Pens: The Medical Knowledge of Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Projet de recherche au Canada / 2018 - 2021
Lead researcher :
Heather Meek
Funding sources:
CRSH/Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
Grant programs:
PVX20020-Subvention institutionnelle du CRSH - Subventions d'exploration
L'HYSTERIE, LA MATERNITE ET LA PROFESSION DE FEMME DE LETTRES EN GRANDE-BRETAGNE AU DIX-HUITIEME SIECLE Projet de recherche au Canada / 2014 - 2018
Lead researcher :
Heather Meek
Funding sources:
FRQSC/Fonds de recherche du Québec - Société et culture (FQRSC)
Grant programs:
PV113813-(NP) Soutien à la recherche pour la relève professorale
Publications Expand all Collapse all
Livres
- Reimagining Illness: Women Writers and Medicine in Eighteenth-Century Britain. Montreal; Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023.
- Planetary Health Humanities and Pandemics (co-edited with Heike Härting). New York: Routledge, 2024.
Articles de revue
- “‘Meanders of [the] Purple Flood’: Blood and Bloodletting in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Medicine.” Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JECS) 46.1 (2023): 41-57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/1754-0208.12872
- “A ‘prodigious latitude’ of Words: Vocabularies of Illness in 18th-Century Medical Treatises and Women’s Writing.” BMJ: Medical Humanities 48.2 (2022): 253-60. doi: 10.1136/medhum-2020-012133
- “Frances Burney’s Mastectomy Narrative and Discourses of Breast Cancer in the Long Eighteenth Century.” Literature and Medicine 35.1 (Spring 2017): 27-45. doi: 10.1353/lm.2017.0001
- “Medical Men, Women of Letters, and Treatments for Eighteenth-Century Hysteria.” Journal of Medical Humanities 34.1 (March 2013): 1-14.
- “Creative Hysteria and the Intellectual Woman of Feeling.” Figures et culture de la dépression (1660-1800)/The Representation and Culture of Depression (1660-1800). Vol. 1. Spec. issue of Le Spectateur européen/The European Spectator: 10 (2010): 87-98.
- “Of Wandering Wombs and Wrongs of Women: Evolving Conceptions of Hysteria in the Age of Reason.” English Studies in Canada 35.2-3 (June/September 2009): 105-28.
Chapitres de livres
- “Jane Barker, Medical Discourse, and the Origins of the Novel.” Literature and Medicine: The Eighteenth Century. Volume 1. Ed. Clark Lawlor and Andrew Mangham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. 51-69. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108355476.004
- “Medicine and Health.” Samuel Richardson in Context. Ed. Peter Sabor and Betty Schellenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 264-71. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316576755.032
- “‘[F]ictitious [D]istress’ or Veritable Woe?: The Problem of Eighteenth-Century Ennui.” Disease and Death in Eighteenth-Century Literature and Culture: Fashioning the Unfashionable. Ed. Allan Ingram and Leigh Wetherall-Dickson. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2017. 13-31. doi: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59718-2_2
- “Motherhood, Hysteria, and the Eighteenth-Century Woman Writer.” The Secrets of Generation: Reproduction in the Long Eighteenth Century. Ed. Raymond Stephanson and Darren Wagner. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2015. 238-57.
- “‘[W]hat fatigues we fine ladies are fated to endure’: Sociosomatic Hysteria as a Female ‘English Malady.’” Diseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period. Ed. Yasmin Haskell. Early European Research 1200-1650 Series. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishing, 2011. 375-96.
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