Early Modern Literary Studies: Listening to the Early Modern

2001

The peer-reviewed e-journal Early Modern Literary Studies (http://purl.oclc.org/emls/emlshome.html) invites submissions for a special issue entitled "Listening to the Early Modern".

How did Early Modern culture perceive sound? How far can we reconstruct the ways in which speech, music, and even ambient noise were interpreted as auditory experiences, and what are the implications of this for our study of literary texts? This special issue will build on recent scholarly work in these areas as well as on the electronic journal's unique ability to incorporate sound clips into scholarly articles themselves. Submissions are invited in the following or in any related areas: speech, oratory, ballads, music and literature, the acoustics of performance, Renaissance theories of sound, acoustic metaphors, synaesthesia. The closing date for submissions is 1 September 2000. Enquiries and submissions should be directed to Matthew Steggle, M.Steggle@shu.ac.uk, the Managing Editor (Special Issues).

Now in its fifth year of publication, Early Modern Literary Studies (ISSN 1201-2459) is a refereed journal serving as a formal arena for scholarly discussion and as an academic resource for researchers in the area. Articles in EMLS examine English literature, literary culture, and language during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; responses to published papers are also published as part of a Readers' Forum.

 

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© 2000-, Lisa Hopkins (Editor, EMLS).
(MS 18 January 2000)