Periodic Reporting for period 1 - REWID (Rethinking Widowhood: Women, Loss, and Liberation in Nineteenth-Century Musical Culture)

This project confronts the challenge of historicizing widowhood (a topic often overlooked or given tangential mention) at the intersection of musicology, gender studies, and the history of emotions. It rethinks the history of widowhood not only in terms of the loss of a...