Writers Block

I sent a friend a text today, it said "writer's block." She replied with, "nymphomania." At first, I thought she was trying to tell me her secret, when I realized that she meant I should write about it I laughed out loud and thought to myself, why would I want to write about that. Then I got to thinking... Nymphomania is commonly associated with women of the early 19th Century. I did a quick search of the word Nymphomania at OED.com (English Major's gold) and the term originated in the late 18th Century.
I have access to a scholarly database that focuses on that era, and is overflowing with information regarding women and sexual desire, prostitution, brothels, etc.  We'll see where this leads me.

I have a weird interest in 19th Century literature, well anything that's old -- in college I took a class titled Victorian Literature, and another called Pre 1800 Literature (spl topics: Epistolary lit) along with many Medieval classes (I'm a medieval studies minor). I had a professor who is obsessed with the Victorian era, (Roughly 1832-1901) and in his class I learned a bit about the history. See there are many different classifications for studying literature; formalism, psychoanalitic criticism, historicism (old and new), just to name a few. The particular professor that I speak of, liked historicism and that is how he taught. We not only studied literature of the 19th Century, but we studied artwork, philosophy,  and more. We looked closely at people of the time and most particulary, gender matters.

Gender matters in the 19th century covers a lot of what the people of the time were going through. Many works of literature from that time period displays the problems. If I do take on this task, I'll research nymphomania, prostitution, and other issues related with women of the time. If I get real into it, I'll research the sames problems in today's society and compare and contrast.

A part of me sees myself starting this little project only to stick it in a box, throw it in the basement of my life and forget it even existed, on the other hand, I'm excited to have something to write about. It will definitely be interesting and time consuming.

Thanks friend who suggested it