UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
CALL FOR PAPERS
Martinus Revived: Scriblerian Satire and its Significance
Friday 10 November 2000
The Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus stands as a monument to the friendship
of some of the cleverest men of their day -- Pope, Swift, Gay, Arbuthnot,
Parnell, and Harley -- and a solid record of their hatreds and
antipathies political, cultural, and intellectual. At the same time, it
is a mobile text composed and recomposed by a complexly various group,
and 'Scriblerus' is a protean figure to whom the works of numerous
authors could be ascribed. In his 1950 edition of the Memoirs,
Kerby-Miller noted that 'the activities which may be labelled Scriblerian
spanned a period of almost three decades.' Moreover, Brean Hammond has
argued that the Scriblerian boundaries can be extended much further:
'Scriblerian satire is capable of relative autonomy from the historical
moment that produced it ... Perhaps the term "Scriblerian" should be
assimilated into the vocabulary of criticism in the same way as the term
"Menippean" has been.'
Since the publication of Kerby-Miller's magisterial edition,
much productive scholarship and further critical attention has led to a
rethinking of that 'historical moment', as well as of the nature of
individual and collective authorship, and of the mode of satire.
Proposals for papers are invited which assess the activities of the
Scriblerus Club, examine their abrasive relationship with their political
and cultural milieu, including their treatment
of the sciences, or consider their antecedents and successors in any
historical period.
The aim of the conference is to foster dialogue between different
disciplines, theoretical and critical approaches, and historical periods.
Abstracts will be circulated in advance, and speakers will be encouraged
to respond to each other and then to revise their papers in the light of
conference debate in order to assemble an integrated volume of essays for
publication.
Invited speakers include: Professor Brean Hammond, Professor Roy Porter,
Professor George Rousseau, Markman Ellis, Julian Ferraro, Jon Mee, and
Robert Phiddian.
Deadline for receipt of proposals: 28 January 2000.
Organiser: Judith Hawley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
j.hawley@rhbnc.ac.uk
Venue: Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, 3rd Floor,
Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
Tel: 0171862 8675
Fax: 0171862 8672
email: ies@sas.ac.uk
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