'Of Seditions and Troubles': Representing Treason 1400-1700
This interdisciplinary conference aims to stimulate debate amongst
scholars working in the related fields of literary, historical and
cultural studies about the enactments of treason in the early modern and
medieval periods. In the wake of the new historicist insistence on the
containment of subversion, papers will re-consider treason, sedition and
libel in the context of literary representations and censorship. Papers
(25-30 minutes) are invited on any aspect of medieval or early modern
treason and sedition, but we are particularly interested in papers which
address the relationship betwen legal definitions of treason and and
literary constructions; state trials; dramatic figurations of court
proceedings; heresy and witchcraft; petty treason; the changing nature
of discourses on rebellion and tyrannicide; seditious pamphleteering. We
have a publisher who is interested in the proceeds of the conference.
Abstracts (no more than 300 words) to Dr. Danielle Clarke, Department of
English, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, IRELAND, or by
email to danielle.clarke@ucd.ie; anne.fogarty@ucd.ie; or
clare.gallagher@oceanfree.net by 09/01.
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