Please note the new deadline for receipt of proposals.
NEMLA 2003
Boston, MA
Deadline for Proposals: 9/25/02
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 in
Spenser, Shakespeare, and Milton_, Katherine Eggert asserts that "female
authority itself is the leitmotif around which issues of experimentation in
literary form emerge and cluster" in Renaissance England (9). Her argument
works out of a growing interest in women and power and opens new avenues
for thinking about the representation of female power in the early modern
period. This panel will work out of these interests to investigate literary
and historical treatments of female power in early modern England. If,
indeed, female authority becomes an image, even a haunting specter, in the
imagination of early modern poets, playwrights, and essayists, spurring
them to experiment with literary forms in new and exciting ways, this panel
aims to investigate the nature of that image, of that specter. Questions
considered by the panel might include: What does the notion of female
authority allow or drive writers to imagine? How do early modern notions of
gender and power complicate and to some extent create a dynamic that helps
explain or describe the positions, actions, and reactions of female
characters who rarely receive attention by scholars, let alone sympathy
such as, but not limited to, Tamora, Volumnia, Goneril)? What literary
forms, in particular, lend themselves to the image of the powerful woman?
How does the image of the woman in power work to transform the literary form?
Papers that address these questions through a historical and theoretical
study of early modern literature are especially welcome. I hope to put
together a panel of three papers that will examine the representation and
place of women in early modern literature and culture in a variety of ways.
2-page proposals will be accepted via traditional and e-mail. Please send
all inquiries
to:
Cristina Leon Alfar
Department of English
Hunter College, CUNY
695 Park Ave
New York, NY 10021
calfar@hunter.cuny.edu
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Cristina Leon 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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