The Urban Rogue in Seventeenth Century London

CFP for a session at the Central New York Conference on Language and Literature, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY October 18-20, 1998

As London grew from a medieval village to a seventeenth-century metropolis, the urban rogue and trickster, sometimes a con man, sometimes a thief, sometimes a self-portrait of a writer, became increasingly important to English literature. This panel focuses on how different literary versions of the urban rogue reflect changes in the culture of early modern England. Papers considering the transmission of the Spanish picaro into English letters are also welcome. Send 250-word abstracts by June 15.

Steve Mentz
Yale University
484 Whitney Ave, #A3
New Haven, CT 06511
smentz@pantheon.yale.edu
203-624-9686

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