The Early Modern Big House

Northeast Modern Language Association, Pittsburgh, 16-17 April 1999

This Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) session is designed as an opportunity to explore the rich but largely untapped vein of writings by early modern prisoners (More, Lovelace, Askew...), and/or writings that deal realistically and imaginatively with imprisonment (Marlowe's Edward II, Spenser's Redcrosse, Milton's Samson...).

Some of the questions (please don't feel limited to these) which we might address include: Did women experience and/or write about incarceration differently than men? Is there a vein of homoeroticism present in early modern prison writings that might relate to twentieth-century manifestations? How do racial identity and religious belief intersect with imprionment and its representation?

Please send me your abstracts and/or papers by 15 September 1998.
Many thanks.

Michael M. Holmes
Department of English Language and Literature
Brock University
St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1
Canada

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