"Literary Culture at the English Renaissance University"
Proposed Special Session
2002 MLA Annual Convention in New York
The Tudor and Stuart universities have attracted much recent attention from scholars of early modern literature and culture as sites that produced authoritative models for literacy, learning, and identity among members of the learned professions. How did contemporaries imagine the role of the universities (which may include the Inns of Court, as well as Oxford and Cambridge) within the cultural life of early modern England? This panel will discuss the relationship between the changing demographics of the universities -- and their changing role in the Tudor/Stuart commonwealth -- with respect to poetry , prose, and drama produced at these institutions. Possible topics include:
representations of university scholars at particular moments in English economic history;
choices of genre at certain universities, or among certain generations of university men;
literary responses to questions of royal succession, local politics, town-gown conflicts, class, or gender;
how universities and scholars were represented by non-university authors; and
conflicts, affinities, or influences between university culture and popular culture.
Please submit completed abstracts (250-300 words) by email only to Laurie Ellinghausen, Department of English, University of California at Santa Barbara, email: lme1@umail.ucsb.edu or laurell_1999@yahoo.com.
Deadline for receipt of all submissions: March 5, 2002
All participants must be MLA members by April 1, 2002. Please note your membership status in your cover letter.
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