Writing Prisons: Literature and Constraint in Early Modern England
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
No booking required
This mini-symposium will consider forms of physical, political, and aesthetic unfreedom in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. In short papers and a roundtable discussion, participants will consider the complex disorder of the early modern English prison, networks of correspondence between prisoners and their free associates, and the use of imprisonment as both context and metaphor for literary production.
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Participants:
- Ruth Ahnert, Senior Lecturer in Renaissance Studies, QMUL
- Richard Bell, Research Fellow in History, University of Birmingham
- Andrea Brady, Professor of Poetry, QMUL
- Molly Murray, Associate Professor of English, Columbia University and Visiting Fellow, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities
- Robert Stagg, Lecturer in English, St. Anne's College, Oxford
Contact name:
Madisson Brown
Contact phone:
6612