CFP: Conference on "Restoration Epistolarity"

Jaroslaw Jasenowski Announcement
Location
Germany
Subject Fields
British History / Studies, Communication, Cultural History / Studies, Early Modern History and Period Studies, Literature

Call for papers

 

Conference on “Restoration Epistolarity”

Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Erlangen, 27-28 March 2020

 

The changing media environment of the English Restoration brought forth a sizeable increase in various forms of literary culture, including the birth of large-scale periodical publishing and the ready availability of the letter resulting from the establishment of the Penny Post. Contrary to the widely held consensus that the letter promoted reliability, recent scholarship has stressed the form’s deconstructive potential, allowing both readers and writers to reflect on the mediated nature of writing and the tenuous relationship between sign and reality. At this conference, we will therefore discuss Restoration epistolary culture as intimately tied to media criticism, new forms of corporeality, and changing literary values. Papers on these and related aspects of seventeenth and early eighteenth-century forms of epistolarity are welcome!

 

Confirmed speakers:

Prof. Dr. Thomas Beebee (Penn State)

Prof. Dr. Helen Berry (Newcastle)

Prof. Dr. Markman Ellis (Queen Mary, U London)

Prof. Dr. Joe Bray (Sheffield)

 

Please send a 300-word proposal for a 30-minute presentation to both organizers, Jaroslaw Jasenowski (jaroslaw.jasenowski@fau.de) and Gerd Bayer (gerd.bayer@fau.de), by 30 November 2019.

 

Contact Email
jaroslaw.jasenowski@fau.de