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CALL FOR PAPERS
One session on Early Modern Women co-sponsored by: The Society for the Study
of Early Modern Women, Convivium, and Ashgate Publishing, for the 39th
International Congress on Medieval Studies meeting in Kalamazoo, Michigan on
May 6-9, 2004. Deadline for abstracts: September 15. We encourage earlier
submissions.
Gender and Oral Traditions in Early Modern Literary Texts
Works by numerous early modern authors, such as Shakespeare and Spenser,
demonstrate a heavy debt to oral practices and traditions, often transmitted
by female caretakers in the childhood. Recent work by Marina Warner and
Robert Darnton provide new and deeply social perspectives on this culture.
This session foregrounds the cultural presence of those--especially lower
class women--often marginalized in contemporary criticism. Papers should
connect oral traditions, especially those inflected by gender, and literary
texts. Traditions may include but are not limited to oral tales, ballads, and
folk practices.
Reading time for papers should be no more than twenty minutes. Participants
may submit an abstract only to one session in a given year. Requests for any
equipment must be submitted with the abstract. .Please include home & office
phone numbers, fax number, complete mailing address (home and office), and
e-mail address along with your abstract.
Submitting by e-mail: please send abstracts to the following three e-mail
addresses:
maryelamb@ aol.com, hannay@ siena.edu, egaffney@ ashgate.com. Because of
various incompatible software programs, please paste your abstract rather
than attaching it.
Submitting by snail mail: please send abstracts to all three:
Mary Ellen Lamb, Dept. of English, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale,
Illinois 62901
Margaret Hannay, Dept. of Humanities, Siena College, Loudinville, New York
12211
Erika Gaffney, Ashgate Publishing, 101 Cherry St., Suite 420, Burlington, Vt.
05401-4405.
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