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Co-organisation du colloque international en ligne « Genre Trouble in Early Modern England » avec Katie Ebner-Landy (Queen Mary University of London)

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Early modern writings frequently resist neat or easy generic categorisation. Subject to interpretation, pastiche and modification, generic categories offer flexible guidelines rather than a strict set of rules. This one-day conference aims to look at generic experimentation, hybridity and innovation in early modern writing as a way to better understand the period’s multiple and evolving conceptions of genre.    In the last decade, scholars have come to accept and even embrace generic complexity and variety as a common feature of many early modern texts, in particular in the wide category of “life-writing”. This has led to reappraisals of both canonical and lesser-known texts, as well as the recovery of previously neglected genres such as mother’s legacies, conversion narratives and biblical verse paraphrase. Recent companions to early modern literature and women’s writing have also established a more specific and varied generic classification to better represent the generic engagements of writers of the period. And in archival research it has become common for literary scholars to pay closer attention to the genre ascribed to manuscripts –– on bindings, title-pages, flyleaves, or in catalogues –– with these initial descriptions increasingly thought to be of crucial value. Genre, that is, is back: raising questions of interpretation, formal development, kinds of contextualism and literary value –– with its capacity to bring about new categories of understanding, which appear, evolve and disappear, often leaving early modern texts unfamiliar and strange.     We will be particularly interested in investigating questions about the emergence, popularity, evolution and decline of genres; about how best to track generic changes and developments; and about the relationship between a choice of genre and a writer’s socio-cultural role. We are further interested in asking about early modern conceptions of genre and demonstrations of early modern genre-consciousness.   Programme 9:00 - Welcome Address 9:10 - Life-writing Martin Thompson (University of Manchester) ‘Un-editing’ the Autobiographical Fragments of Mary Ward (1585-1645): taking the texts on their own terms Emma Rayner (Australian National University): Life-writing or Writing Lives? The reception of maternal advice in Elizabeth Isham’s spiritual autobiography 10:10 - Polemic  Laurent Curelly (Université de Haute Alsace): ‘Must Invention labour into infinites?’ British Civil War mercuries or generic innovation Genevieve Bourjeaurd (Simon Fraser University): Reading Receipts: Generic Language in Early Modern Churchwardens’ Accounts 11:10-12:10 - Keynote Kathryn Murphy (University of Oxford): Word Salads: Montaigne and the Essay Against Genre 12:10-13:10 lunch break 13:10 - Reading Genre Jessica C. Beckman (Dartmouth College): A marvelous hystory entitled Beware the Cat: Fiction, Compilation, and Early Modern Print Ellen Roberts (Lancaster University): The Horse, the Ass, and the Mule: a linguistic analysis of the context, development, and mixing of early modern English dramatic genres 14:10 - Paratexts Béatrice Rouchon (Sorbonne Université): ‘A Blue Coat without a Badge’: Generic Constraints in English Printed Paratexts (c.1580-1620) Emily Smith (Université de Genève): ‘His Comedie unto his Theatre’: Conceptions of Genre in the Early Modern Dramatic Epilogue 15.10 - Hybridity  Abigail Shinn (Goldsmiths): Popular Pastoral: Genre Trouble in Spenser's Shepheardes Calender Javiera Lorenzini Raty (King’s College London): The Greekness of Hybrid Poems: Hermogenes of Tarsus’ Theory of Mixture and late Elizabethan Epyllion 16:00-16.30: Questions and Discussion  16.30–17:00: Breakout Room Drinks 
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Emma Bartel, Katie Ebner-Landy. Co-organisation du colloque international en ligne « Genre Trouble in Early Modern England » avec Katie Ebner-Landy (Queen Mary University of London). Genre Trouble in Early Modern England, Sorbonne Université et Queen Mary University of London, Mar 2022, En ligne, France. ⟨hal-03944061⟩
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