Nada Saadaoui, Doctoral Researcher
In an article for The Conversation UK, Doctoral Researcher Nada Saadaoui writes about walking as a form of resistance for Jane Austen's heroines.
Nada is a graduate of University of Cumbria's MA Literature, Romanticism & the Lake District, and currently studying for a PhD.
Nada's doctoral research aims to explore Jane Austen’s depiction of walking in Romantic era English landscapes from the late 18th century to the early 19th century, focusing on the significance of the exercise in her life and work in relation to the philosophies and ideologies of the period.
The project is structured by a focus on the geographical spaces in which walking occurs within both the letters of Jane Austen and her novels, including walking out of doors, indoors, in parks, gardens, shrubberies, watering places, seaside resorts, towns, countryside and wilderness. The research includes consideration of various modes of walking, costumes and a gendered reading of the politics of pedestrianism in the Romantic era.
Supervisors: Dr Penny Bradshaw (Lead Supervisor) and Dr Paul Ferguson
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