This paper explains the theoretical and personal rationale behind my MA project-a novel, “A Continuous Present.”ĪBSTRACT This thesis aims to elucidate previously obscured aspects of nineteenth-century women’s writing, through the development of original approaches to the reading of gender ambiguity, queer subjectivities and non-normative desire. Examining the performances of self-identity formed between author and reader and the sense of community that develops sight unseen, I have crafted the story of a woman who finds herself playing audience to a diarist, re-envisioning the diarist’s identity (as well as her own) in concurrence with other possible audiences she imagines through the crafting of her own text. Through a constructivist paradigm, the methodology of philosophical hermeneutics, new historicism, and the creative vehicle of fiction, I entered Gillespie’s text to examine the themes which emerged within her narrative, in the light of the imagined life and experiences of my protagonist-a woman who finds the diary while cleaning out the attic of her late uncle’s house.

To illustrate that boundary, I situated myself-through my research and writing-as a responding audience to nineteenth-century Iowa farm wife Emily Hawley Gillespie, as she is revealed through the pages of her thirty-year diary. The readers of a text are-in many ways-also its authors, with the act of reading creating a dialog between a text already written and a text generated through reader response, creating a community along the boundary between author and reader.

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