Historicism and Its Discontents Conference - Rutgers English British Studies

Historicism and Its Discontents

Friday, October 12, 2007

9:00 am - 6:30 pm

Alexander Library Teleconference Lecture Hall (4th Floor)
169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ
Directions

Participants
Jean E. Howard (Columbia University)

Aranye Fradenburg (UC Santa Barbara)

Madhavi Menon (American University)

Kathryn Schwarz (Vanderbilt University)

Conference Description
Historicism, whether New, old, or newer, today remains the dominant method of literary criticism in both the US and the UK. Perhaps no field has played a more important role in establishing historicism as an international critical orthodoxy than the field of early modern studies, which continues to furnish topics of inquiry that drive literary scholarship in the academy as a whole (cf. the history of the book, reading, authorship, and of copyright; the history of the body and of the senses; literature and material culture; literature and science; literature and economic thought). more »

Sponsors:
Department of English, Program in Early Modern Studies at the Center for Cultural Analysis,
Medieval Studies Program, Office of the Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Rutgers English Sexuality Speakers Series, Rutgers British Sudies Project

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