THE FAERIE QUEENE IN THE WORLD, 1596-1996: EDMUND SPENSER AMONG THE DISCIPLINES

INFORMATION, REGISTRATION MATERIAL AND PROGRAM

YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART is at 1080 Chapel Street at High Street on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Sessions will be held there and elsewhere on campus; registration will take place in the Center's entrance court.

ACCOMMODATIONS: Reserve your room directly with the New Haven Hotel (229 George St., New Haven CT 06510 USA, tel. 203-498-3100, fax 203-498-3190). Special conference rates are per room, per night: $75 for single occupancy and $80 for double. The hotel is 5 blocks from the Yale Center for British Art and near all restaurants, with a 25-yard pool and visitation privileges at the Downtown Health and Racquet Club. Another nearby choice, though not as new or as luxurious, is the Colony Hotel at 1157 Chapel St., New Haven CT 06511-4892; telephone 800-458-8810 from within the US; 203-776-1234 from outside; fax 203-772-3929. Mention the Spenser conference to receive similar special rates there.

AIR, TRAIN, & BUS TRAVEL: You are eligible for a 5-10% discount on US Air flights into Tweed-New Haven Airport. Call their Convention Reservation Office at 800-334-8644 and refer to Gold File Number 81350142 or mention Yale University and Spenser. Tweed-New Haven Airport is about 15 minutes by taxi from campus and the New Haven Hotel (which may offer shuttle service: ask). Even closer are the New Haven stations for train (Amtrak and Metro North) and bus (Peter Pan, Greyhound). Connecticut Limousine Service provides frequent transportation to its bus terminal in New Haven from J. F. Kennedy, Laguardia, and Newark airports, for about $80 round trip. Make arrangements at a ground transportation desk near the baggage claim.

DRIVERS: From I-95 north or south, take exit 47 for downtown New Haven onto the connector 34 West. From 34 West, take exit 3 and the first right turn onto York Street. Drive 21/2 blocks to the parking lot for the Yale Center for British Art (on your right), or park in any nearby lot. From I-91 traveling south, take exit 1 onto 34 West, then follow the directions above.

QUESTIONS or special needs: contact Matthew Greenfield, Conference Registrar, 66 Orange Street #415, New Haven CT 06510 USA, matthew.greenfield@yale.edu, telephone 203-777-7793.

TO REGISTER before September 1, 1996: Together with this form, mail a check or money order in US dollars (made payable to Yale University) to Matthew Greenfield, Conference Registrar, at 66 Orange Street #415, New Haven CT 06510 USA.

The fee includes the conference packet, all sessions, continental breakfasts, coffee breaks, and receptions. After September 1st, register at the door; fees will be higher and space will be limited. Reserve your accommodations separately, as above. Cancellation policy: your fees will be refunded less an $8 cancellation fee if you notify us in writing before September 12.

Elizabeth Fowler, Yale University, Director
Patrick Cheney, The Pennsylvania State University
Matthew Greenfield, Yale University
Jennifer Klein Morrison, Yale University
Art Direction, Julie Lavorgna, Yale Center for British Art
Business Manager, David Mills, Yale Center for British Art

The James M. and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Stephen Parks, Curator
The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Yale Center for British Art
The Pennsylvania State University
Major League Baseball, Inc.
The Spenser Society of America
The Elizabethan Club of Yale University

DRAFT PROGRAM

7-9 pm
Opening roundtable
Elizabeth Fowler, Yale University, chair
Patricia Parker, Stanford University
Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Princeton University
Roland Greene, University of Oregon
David Lee Miller, University of Kentucky
Barbara Kiefer Lewalski, Harvard University

9 pm
Cocktails hosted by the Spenser Society and the Yale English Department

9 am
Plenary lecture
Chair: Stephen Orgel, Stanford University

• Leonard Barkan, New York University, "Ruins and Visions: Spenser's Pictorial Imagination"

11-12:30 am
Panel: Ecclesiastical Politics
Chair: Laura Lunger Knoppers, The Pennsylvania State University

• John N. King, Ohio State University, "Milton's Cave of Errour: The Rewriting of Spenserian Satire in Paradise Lost"
• Dominic F. Delli Carpini, St. Ambrose University, "Politics and the Theology of Literary Form"
• Jeffrey Knapp, University of California, Berkeley, "Anticlerical Spenser"

Panel: Allegory
Chair: Matthew Greenfield, Yale University

• Kenneth Gross, University of Rochester, "The Postures of Allegory"
• Gordon Teskey, Cornell University, "Allegory and Thinking"
• Angus Fletcher, City University of New York, Response

Workshop: The Afterlife of the Poem
Chairs: John Rogers, Yale University, and Lauren Silberman, Baruch College, CUNY
Coordinator: Earle Havens, Yale University

• John Watkins, University of Minnesota, "Goddesses Among the Gods: Miltonic Circumventions of Spenserian Choice"
• Jacqueline T. Miller, Rutgers University, "Lady Mary Wroth in the House of Busirane"
• Sayre N. Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg, "The Evolution of The Faerie Queene , 1590-1805"
• Margaret P. Hannay, Siena College, "The Countess of Pembroke as a Spenserian Poet"
• Shannon Miller, Temple University, "'Mirrours More Then One': Edmund Spenser and Female Authority in the Seventeenth Century"
• Jennifer Klein Morrison, Yale University, "Continuing Spenser"
• W. A. Sessions, Georgia State University, "Bacon's Spenser: Technology as the Validity of Epic Romance, or the New Atlantis as Sequel to The Faerie Queene "
• Susanne Woods, Franklin & Marshall College, "Women in the Margin: Prophetic Voices in Spenser and Lanyer"
• David Gardiner, Loyola University Chicago, "An Anglo-Irish (?) Spenser: Elizabeth's Poet and Irish Cultural Nationalism"
• Richard C. Frushell, Pennsylvania State University, McKeesport, "Spenser's Advent as Literary Model: 1706-1762"
• Catherine Belling, SUNY at Stony Brook, "Internal Divisions: Spenser, Fletcher, and the Disruption of the Allegorical Body"

2-3:30 pm
Panel: Comparative Spenser
Chair: Patrick Cheney, The Pennsylvania State University

• Anne Lake Prescott, Barnard College, "Comparative Careerism: Spenser and Ronsard"
• Roland Greene, University of Oregon, "Spenser's Transatlantic Worlds"
• David Quint, Yale University, "Spenser in Colonna"
  

Panel: Institutions and Persons
Chair: Richard C. McCoy, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY

• Judith H. Anderson, Indiana University, Bloomington, "'Better a mischief then an inconvenience': The 'saiyng self' in Spenser's Writing"
• William H. Sherman, University of Maryland, College Park, "'Waiting on Lobbin': Gabriel Harvey's Service to the Earl of Leicester"
• Antonio Feros, New York University, "The Politics of Love and Friendship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England"

Panel: Visual Rhetoric
Chair: Christopher S. Wood, Yale University

• Christy Anderson, Yale University, "Architecture Devised: Sir Thomas Tresham and Edmund Spenser"
• Judith Dundas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Spenser and the Literature of Art in Renaissance England
• Lucy Gent, London, "Gheeraerdts' Portrait of Captain Thomas Lee and ut pictura poesis"
  

Workshop: Building Histories
Chairs: Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan, and Lawrence Manley, Yale University
Coordinator: Jeffrey Dolven, Harvard University

• Anne Fogarty, University College, Dublin, "Straggling Plots: History and Representation in The Faerie Queene Book II"
• Katherine Rowe, Yale University, "Merlin and Tudor Historiography"
• Andrew Escobedo, University of California, Berkeley, "Spenser's National History and the 'Middle Nature' of Poetry"
• Walter R. Davis, Brown University, "Allegories: An Essay in Classification and Historical Perspective"
• Paul Suttie, Robinson College, Cambridge University, "Political Pragmatism in The Faerie Queene Book I"
• James Sutton, Florida International University, "Spenser and Lord Burghley Reconsidered: Poetic Inscriptions of an Architectural Patron"
• Eric C. Klingelhofer, Mercer University, "The Archaeology of Kilcolman Castle"
• Kathleen M. Graney, Auburn University, "The Inside Story: A Topological Approach to The Faerie Queene"
• Jeffrey Dolven, Harvard University, "Spenser and the Troubled Theaters" Cyndia Clegg, Pepperdine University, "'One, whose tongue was for his trespasse vyle Nayld to a post': Spenser and Censorship Revisited"
• Jeffrey B. Morris, Carroll College, "'Curteous Lord, Curteous Spenser': Spenser's Fictions of Patronage and The Faerie Queene"
• Douglas Brooks, Columbia University, "'Made all Rusty Yron, Ranckling Sore': The Imprint of Paternity in The Faerie Queene "
• Matthew Greenfield, Yale University, "The Double Work of Spenserian Satire"
• M. Lindsay Kaplan, Georgetown University, "Allegories of Defamation in The Faerie Queene IV-VI"

4-5:30 pm
Plenary lecture
Chair: G. K. Hunter, Yale University

• Nicholas Canny, University College, Galway, "The Social and Political Thought of Edmund Spenser in his Maturity"

5:45-7:30 pm
Cocktails hosted by the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

• "Spenseriana: From Illustrated to Spurious Spenser," Jennifer Morrison, guest curator
  
• Interlude of Renaissance and modern musical settings of Spenser's poetry performed by a vocal ensemble under the direction of Hannibal Hamlin

9-10:30 am
Plenary lecture
Chair: Thomas M. Greene, Yale University

• Susanne Lindgren Wofford, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "The Enfolding Dragon: Arthur and the Moral Economy of The Faerie Queene "

11-12:30 pm
Panel: The Racial Polity
Chair: Patricia Parker, Stanford University

• Richard A. McCabe, Merton College, Oxford University, "'The Community of Language': Spenser and Linguistic Colonialism"
• Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan, "Colonials Write the Nation: Spenser, Milton, and England on the Margins"
• Debora Shuger, University of California, Los Angeles, "Irishmen, Aristocrats, and Other White Barbarians"

Panel: Currencies
Chair: Jerome S. Dees, Kansas State University

• Donald Cheney, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, "Spenser's Currencies"
• James C. Nohrnberg, University of Virginia, "'Beauty, and Money': Some Primitive Accumulations in Book VI of The Faerie Queene of 1596"
• Heather Dubrow, University of Wisconsin, Madison, "'A doubtfull sense of things': Thievery in The Faerie Queene VI.x and xi"

Workshop: Local Readings
Chairs: Lynn Enterline, Yale University, and John W. Moore, Jr., Pennsylvania State University
Coordinator: Susan Ahern, Yale University

• William J. Kennedy, Cornell University, "Spenser's Squire's Literary History"
• Marshall Grossman, University of Maryland, College Park, "History and Allegory Cross-Dressed and Undressed on Mt. Acidale"
• Melinda Gough, Oklahoma State University, "'Her filthy feature open shown': Spenserian Unveilings"
• Katherine Eggert, University of Colorado, "Spenser's Ravishment: Rape and Rapture in The Faerie Queene"
• Marion Hollings, Middle Tennessee State University, "Women, Abjection, and Authority in The Legende of Holinesse"
• Theresa M. Krier, University of Notre Dame, "Chaucer, Envy, and the Stripping of Duessa"
• Mary Ellen Lamb, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, "The Faerie Queene as Fairy Tale"
• Laura Levine, New York University, "Spenser's False Shewes: Magic, Art and Looking in Book I of The Faerie Queene"
• Seth Barron, Yale University, "The Decay of Spying: Optics and Allegory in the Bowre of Blisse"
• Michael C. Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan, "The Enemy Within: Extreme Temperance in The Faerie Queene "
• Marc Schachter, University of California, Santa Cruz, "Passive Boys, Nasty Girls, and Textual Reproduction in the Bower of Bliss and the Garden of Adonis"
• John D. Staines, Yale University, "Awe, Order, and the Poet Bad: Allegory and Irony at Mercilla's Court"

2-3:30 pm
Panel: Spectacle
Chair: Humphrey Tonkin, University of Hartford

• Richard Rambuss, Emory University, "The Faerie Queene at Carnival: Spenser and New Orleans Mardi Gras, 1871"
• Michael Dobson, Roehampton Institute, London, and Nicola J. Watson, London, "After Britomart: Nation and the Gender of The Faerie Queene , 1596-1996"

Panel: Spenser in the Nineties
Chair: Thomas P. Roche, Jr., Princeton University

• Paul Alpers, University of California, Berkeley, "Spenser in the '90s"
• Elizabeth Jane Bellamy, University of New Hampshire, "Spenser's Faerie Land and the 'Curious Genealogy of India': Can The Faerie Queene be Postcolonial?"
• A. C. Hamilton, Queen's University, Kingston, "The 'morall vertues' as Elizabethan Culture hath Devised"

Workshop: Views of A Vewe
Chair: Nicholas Canny, University College, Galway
Coordinator: Jennifer Lewin, Yale University

• David J. Baker, University of Hawai'i, "'Briton Moniments': Spenser and British Historiography"
• Carol V. Kaske, Cornell University, "Abandoning the Shield of Justice in Ireland"
• Joanne Woolway, Oriel College, Oxford University, "Significant Spaces in Spenser's View of the Present State of Ireland"
• Clare Carroll, Queens College, CUNY, "Spenser's Poetry and the Languages of Ireland"
• Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, "'The very genius of the soil': Ireland in Spenser's Faerie Queene"
• Maryclaire Moroney, John Carroll University, "John Derrick's Image of Ireland and Spenser's View: Protestant Apocalypses?"
• Walter S. H. Lim, National University of Singapore, "The Poetics of Justice and Imperial Ideology in Book V of The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland "
• Chris Ivic, University of Western Ontario, "Constructing Race in The Faerie Queene and A View of the Present State of Ireland "
• Balachandra Rajan, University of Western Ontario, "Spenser's View and Book V of The Faerie Queene"
• David Edwards, University College, Cork, "Martial Law and Spenser's View of Ireland"
• Swen Voekel, University of Rochester, "The Creation of National Identities in Early Modern Ireland: Spenser's View, the State, and the Technologies of Power"

4-5:30 pm
Plenary lecture
Chair: Jennifer Klein Morrison, Yale University

• Maureen Quilligan, University of Pennsylvania, "On Epic"

6-7:30 pm
Plenary lecture

• Willy Maley, University of Glasgow, and Andrew Hadfield, University of Wales, Aberystwyth "A View of the Present State of Spenser Studies: Dialogue-wise"