Colloque: “Genre Trouble in Early Modern England (1500-1800)”, en ligne (11 mars 2022)

Emma Bartel et Katie Ebner-Landy ont le plaisir d’annoncer la tenue, en ligne, de la conférence “Genre Trouble in Early Modern England (1500-1800)”. L’événement, soutenu par Queen Mary University of London et Sorbonne Université (VALE), aura lieu le 11 mars 2022 de 9:00 à 17:00 (GMT).

Pour s’inscrire, utiliser le lien suivant:  https://tinyurl.com/genre-trouble

Pour toute question, contacter les organisatrices à cette adresse: <genre.emp.conference[at]gmail.com>

Programme

9:00 Welcome Address

9.10 Life-Writing

Martin Thompson (University of Manchester) – ‘Un-editing’ the Autobiographical Fragments of Mary Ward (1585-1645): Taking the Texts on Their Own Terms

Emma Rayner (Australian National University) – Life-writing or Writing Lives? The Reception of Maternal Advice in Elizabeth Isham’s Spiritual Autobiography

10:10 Polemic

Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute Alsace) – ‘Must Invention labour into infinites?’ British Civil War Mercuries or Generic Innovation

Genevieve Bourjeaurd (Simon Fraser University) – Reading Receipts: Generic Language in Early Modern Churchwardens’ Accounts

11:10 KEYNOTE

Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford) — Word Salads: Montaigne and the Essay Against Genre

12:10 LUNCH

13:10 Reading Genre

Jessica C. Beckman (Dartmouth College) – A marvelous hystory entitled Beware the Cat: Fiction, Compilation, and Early Modern Print

Ellen Roberts (Lancaster University) – The Horse, the Ass, and the Mule: a Linguistic Analysis of the Context, Development, and Mixing of Early Modern English Dramatic Genres

14:10 Paratexts

Béatrice Rouchon (Sorbonne Université) – ‘A Blue Coat without a Badge’: Generic Constraints in English Printed Paratexts (c.1580-1620)

Emily Smith (Université de Genève) – ‘His Comedie unto his Theatre’: Conceptions of Genre in the Early Modern Dramatic Epilogue

15:10 Hybridity

Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths) – Popular Pastoral: Genre Trouble in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender

Javiera Lorenzini Raty (King’s College London) – The Greekness of Hybrid Poems: Hermogenes of Tarsus’ Theory of Mixture and late Elizabethan Epyllion

16:00 Q&A

16:30 Breakout Room Drinks

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