A one-day conference at South Bank University, London, England
Friday 31st July 1998
This conference will explore women's writing across the
genres, 1500-1700, taking as a starting point recent theoretical
work on the emergence of the woman author and the nature of the
relationship between women and texts. We are particularly
interested in focusing on the manner in which women authors,
having constructed a voice for themselves, negotiated through
their writing such dominant discourses as religion, the family,
marriage, creativity, education, language, gender, sexuality,
authority, politics. To emphasize the wide range of women's
literary activities at this time, it is hoped that the conference
will
include examples drawn from the following possible areas:
*Poetry * Drama * Prose Fiction * Autobiographies * Death-bed
speeches * Petitions * Prison Memoirs * Prophetic Writings *
Religious Works * Translations * Household Books * Advice Manuals
* Practical Books
We welcome contributions from both established scholars and those
at the beginning of their academic careers, and request one-page
proposals to be sent by 28th February 1998 to either M.J. Kidnie,
School of Education, Politics, and Social Science, South Bank
University, 103 Borough Road, London, England, SE1 0AA (+44 171
815 8062; e-mail: kidniem@sbu.ac.uk), or Rebecca D'Monte,
Department of Literature and Writing, University of Southampton
New College, The Avenue, Southampton, England, SO17 1BG (+44 1703
216239 ext 505). It is our intention to publish the proceedings
of this conference.
PD 2 January 1998