NEMLA 2003
Boston, MA
Deadline for Proposals: 9/15/02
Panelists must be NEMLA members by 12/1/02
Women in/and Power in Early Modern England
In _Showing Like a Queen: Female Authority and Literary Experiment=
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in Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton_, Katherine Eggert asserts that =93femal=
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authority itself is the leitmotif around which issues of experimentation in=
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literary form emerge and cluster=94 in Renaissance England (9). Her=
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works out of a growing interest in women and power and opens new avenues=20
for thinking about the representation of female power in the early modern=20
period. This panel will work out of these interests to investigate literary=
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and historical treatments of female power in early modern England. If,=20
indeed, female authority becomes an image, even a haunting specter, in the=
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imagination of early modern poets, playwrights, and essayists, spurring=20
them to experiment with literary forms in new and exciting ways, this panel=
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aims to investigate the nature of that image, of that specter. Questions=20
considered by the panel might include: What does the notion of female=20
authority allow or drive writers to imagine? How do early modern notions=20
of gender and power complicate and to some extent create a dynamic that=20
helps explain or describe the positions, actions, and reactions of female=20
characters who rarely receive attention by scholars, let alone sympathy=20
(such as, but not limited to, Tamora, Volumnia, Goneril)? What literary=20
forms, in particular, lend themselves to the image of the powerful=20
woman? How does the image of the woman in power work to transform the=20
literary form?
Papers that address these questions through a historical and=20
theoretical study of early modern literature are especially welcome. I=20
hope to put together a panel of three papers that will examine the=20
representation and place of women in early modern literature and culture in=
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a variety of ways. 2-page proposals will be accepted via traditional and=20
e-mail. Please send all inquiries to:
Cristina Le=F3n Alfar
Department of English
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Ave
New York, NY 10021
calfar@hunter.cuny.edu
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Cristina Le=F3n Alfar, Graduate Advisor
Assistant Professor
Department of English
695 Park Ave
New York NY 10021
Phone: (212) 772-5187
E-mail: calfar@hunter.cuny.edu
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