Form in the Renaissance

The following topics will be treated in three panels sponsored by the Division on English Literature of the Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare, at the MLA in San Francisco:

Historicizing Form 1509-1625: Performance. Possible topics: the law court, the liturgy, the altar and the stage, the public scaffold, the pulpit, the royal entry, monastic dissolution and the remapping of England, cultural production and dramatic idiom, the marketplace. 1-2 page
abstracts to Linda Gregerson <gregerso@umich.edu> by March 10.

Historicizing Form 1509-1625: Poetry. Possible topics: emergent theories and practices of poetry, including but not limited to lyric (e.g., narrative, dramatic, historical, occasional, speculative); poetry and ideologies (religious, political, national); how is early modern poetry
historical? 1-2 page abstracts to Roland Greene <rgreene@oregon.uoregon.edu> by March 10.

Historicizing Form 1509-1625: Prose. Possible topics: Henrician, Elizabethan or Jacobean inventions and hybridizations; Protestantism and the re-formations of prose; new prehistories of the novel. 1-2 page abstracts to Clare Kinney <crk4h@virginia.edu> by March 10.

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