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The focus for the year: women as subjects, actors, and writers in England and America, 1500-1800.
"Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies": Early Modern Women, 1500-1800 is a conference exploring the concept of embodiment as it relates to women as creators, subjects, and consumers of British, Continental, and early American cultures. How has our understanding of the association between the body and women been complicated by recent critical investigations into the female body in culture and domesticity? Panel topics to include literature, history, cultural studies, and art history.
Early Modern Women Courses
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ENG 197 Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Poetics of Ecstacy and Rapture (Undergraduate) The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. (EMC course) |
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ENGL 265 Early Modern Women Writers, 1500-1760 (Graduate) The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing. (EMC course) |
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ENGL 157 English Renaissance Drama : Images of Women in English (Undergraduate) This course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. (EMC course) |
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ENGL 197 Upper-Division Seminar : Women Writers, 1550-1700 (Undergraduate) This course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. |
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ENG101S Seminar for English Literature from Medieval to 1650 : Norton Women (Undergraduate) This one-unit honors seminar for students in English 101 will be devoted to reading and discussing the medieval and Renaissance women writers who appear in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. (EMC Course) |
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ENGL 105AS Seminar on Shakespeare, Poems and Earlier Plays: Shakespeare's Women (Undergraduate) This one-unit honors seminar for students in English 105AS will focus on the women in Shakespeare's plays as well as the women who played Shakespeare's characters. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. The course is being given in conjunction with the Early Modern Center's theme for 2002-2003, which is early modern women's writing, and will lead to participation in a spring-quarter student-faculty conference on this topic. (EMC course) |
Early Modern Women Events
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Undergrad Conference on Early Modern Women, 2635 South Hall Undergraduates from classes throughout the year which have focused on the Center's theme of early modern women will deliver individual papers and group presentations. Undergraduate courses represented will include Richard Helgerson's honors section of English 101, which studied the "Norton Women"; Patricia Fumerton's honors section of English 105A: Early Shakespeare (Shakespeare's Women); Patricia Fumerton's 197 on Early Modern Women Writers; Lee Bliss' 157 on Images of Women in English Renaissance Drama; and Robert Erickson's 197 on The Poetics of Ecstasy and Rapture in Seventeenth Century Poetry. Discussions will follow each class's presentation and the conference will conclude with refreshments for all. Schedule of Events: 1:00 Introduction, Patricia Fumerton, Director of Early Modern Center 1:15 Presentations by students of Richard Helgerson’s English 101s: “Norton Women”Magali Bourget Sofia CervantesAlexia FerracutiKristen GoldenLauren HarmonDrew Helms Hilary JohnsonKatie LandmanKaren LunaAlyson SmithVicky Springer 1:45 Presentations by students of Patricia Fumerton’s English 197: “Early Modern Women Writers, 1500-1800” Stephanie GrewalKristen McDevitt Jenna Reed 2:15 Presentations by students of Bob Erickson’s English 197: “The Poetry and Poetics of Ecstasy”Jonathan CornforthLauren HarmonEric Valansi Ashleigh WebbRyan Young 2:45 Break 3:00 Presentations by students of Lee Bliss’s English 157: “ Renaissance Drama: Gender, Genre, and the Representations of Women”Thomas FlowersMichelle Goldberk Jenna Reed 3:30 Presentations by students of Patricia Fumerton’s English 105AS: “Early Shakespeare’s Women”Ryan BatesChristina FrederickJames Howard Brooke ReedMeghann Williams 4:00 Open Discussion 4:30 Reception (refreshments will be served) |
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Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies: Early Modern Women, 1500-1800 Conference Website "Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies: Early Modern Women, 1500-1800" is a conference exploring the concept of embodiment as it relates to women as creators, subjects, and consumers of British, Continental, and early American cultures. How has our understanding of the association between the body and women been complicated by recent critical investigations into the female body in culture and domesticity? Panel topics to include literature, history, cultural studies, and art history. McCune Conference Room, IHC |
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Lecture and Workshop, Professor Madeleine Kahn, Mills College 5:00 p.m., English Department Seminar Room Professor Kahn will talk about how teaching Charlotte Charke's Narrative of the Life of Charlotte Charke at a women's college has changed her view of the text, as well as her view of what constitutes appropriate material for classroom discussion. Students at Mills College defiantly resist recognizing the differences between their own historical situation and Charke's. They insist on bringing the raw material of their emotional lives into the classroom, and on searching the Narrative for clues about how to live their own lives. Their over-identification with Charke and their disdain for historical specificity should lead these students to a serious mis-reading of the Narrative, but in fact they lead both to a persuasive reading of the text and a provocative investigation of the categories by which we establish a hierarchy of value: male and female, public and private, intellectual and emotional. |