Day 2: Radicalism, Politics and Poetics in Early Modern Europe

A Conference in Honor of Nigel Smith
Date
May 12, 2023, 9:00 am7:00 pm

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Event Description

Friday, May 12th (Day 2) 

Location: East Pyene 010

 

9 am - 10:50 am  -   Seventeenth-Century Poetics and Politics I

 

Hero Chalmers, “‘She ... / ... turned her course another way’: Unstable Political Allegiance in the Landscape Poetry of Hester Pulter and Katherine Philips”

Genelle Gertz, “Mystic Trance, Rhymed Speech and the Bounds of Prophetic Poetry”

Peter Lake, “The ‘Radicalism’ of Gertrude More and Augustine Baker”

 

Moderator: Bailey Sincox

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11 am - 1 pm      Round Table Discussion: Poetics, in Relation to Philosophy and Religion

 

Tom Clayton, “Good Faith in Extravagant Belief”

Ross Lerner, “Marvell, Ham”

Ali Mctar, “Against Scripture: Antinomian Style in Early Modern Radical Religion”

Matt Rickard, “Jonson’s Incorrigible Characters”

Matthew Ritger, “Milton and the Literary Workhouse”

Amelia Worsley, “Katherine Philips’ ‘La Solitude de St. Amant’ and its Afterlives”

 

Moderator: Joe Moshenksa

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1 pm - 2 pm      LUNCH

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2 pm - 4 pm     Seventeenth-Century Poetics and Politics II

 

Matthew Augustine, “The Providences of Sir Thomas Browne”

David Norbrook, “Revolution and Revision: The Reception of Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs”

Sarah Ross, “Singing ‘welladay’: Hester Pulter’s political complaints”

Alison Shell, “William Alabaster’s Occult Ecumenism”

 

Moderator: Rhodri Lewis

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4 pm - 4:30 pm       TEA

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4:30 pm - 6:30 pm    Literature, Philosophy, and Revolution

 

Hannah Crawforth, “Milton, Toussaint Louverture and Tragedy”

Joe Moshenska, “Non Omnino Abhorret: Literary Spinoza”

Gerard Passannante, “The Puritan and the Gambler”

 

Moderator: Russ Leo

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6:30 pm - 7 pm       Closing Remarks: Nigel Smith

 

 

Support for the conference comes from the David A. Gardner ‘69 Magic Project; the Committee on Renaissance and Early Modern Studies [CREMS]; the Center for Collaborative History [CCH]; the Center for Culture, Society and Religion [CCSR]; the Center for Human Values [CHV]; the Department of English; and the Bain-Swiggett Fund, Department of English.

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