INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Genre Trouble in Early Modern England (1500–1800) 

Queen Mary University of London and Sorbonne Université 

Friday 11th March 2022, 9:00-17:00 GMT – Online 

Keynote: Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford)

We are pleased to announce that our online conference “Genre Trouble in Early Modern England (1500-1800)”, co-hosted by Queen Mary University of London and Sorbonne Université (VALE), will take place on Friday 11th March, 9:00-17:00 (GMT). If you would like to attend, please register here: https://tinyurl.com/genre-trouble.

Please find attached the poster and the programme below. 

If you have any questions, please email us at genre.emp.conference@gmail.com

Best wishes,

Emma Bartel and Katie Ebner-Landy

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Programme

9:00-9:10: Introduction

Life-writing

9:10-10:00: Martin Thompson (University of Manchester) ‘Un-editing’ the Autobiographical Fragments of Mary Ward (1585-1645): taking the texts on their own terms

Emma Rayner (Australian National University): Life-writing or Writing Lives? The reception of maternal advice in Elizabeth Isham’s spiritual autobiography

10mn break

Polemic 

10:10-11:00: Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute Alsace): ‘Must Invention labour into infinites?’ British Civil War mercuries or generic innovation

Genevieve Bourjeaurd (Simon Fraser University): Reading Receipts: Generic Language in Early Modern Churchwardens’ Accounts

10 mn break

Keynote

11:10-12:10 Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford): Word Salads: Montaigne and the Essay Against Genre

12:10-13:10 lunch break

Reading Genre

13:10-14:00 Jessica C. Beckman (Dartmouth College): A marvelous hystory entitled Beware the Cat: Fiction, Compilation, and Early Modern Print

Ellen Roberts (Lancaster University): The Horse, the Ass, and the Mule: a linguistic analysis of the context, development, and mixing of early modern English dramatic genres

10 mn break

Paratexts

14:10-15.00: Béatrice Rouchon (Sorbonne Université): ‘A Blue Coat without a Badge’: Generic Constraints in English Printed Paratexts (c.1580-1620)

Emily Smith (Université de Genève): ‘His Comedie unto his Theatre’: Conceptions of Genre in the Early Modern Dramatic Epilogue

10mn break

Hybridity 

15.10-16:00: Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths): Popular Pastoral: Genre Trouble in Spenser’s Shepheardes Calender

Javiera Lorenzini Raty (King’s College London): The Greekness of Hybrid Poems: Hermogenes of Tarsus’ Theory of Mixture and late Elizabethan Epyllion

16:00-16.30: Questions and Discussion 

16.30–17:00: Breakout Room Drinks 

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