Join us this Wednesday, 14 November at 6:00 for UCL's "Reevaluating the Literary Coterie" seminar. This week we're promised a lively debate:
Professor Steven May, is adjunct Professor of English at Emory University, Atlanta, and
Senior Research Fellow in the School of English at Sheffield University,
where he is principal investigator of a 4-year Arts and Humanities
Research Council grant concerned with Renaissance English scribal
culture. His books include The Elizabethan Courtier Poets (1991) an
edition of Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works (2004) and Elizabethan
Poetry: A Bibliography and First-Line Index of English Verse, 1559-1603
(2004). His research interests center on English Renaissance manuscript
culture, the Tudor court, and editing early modern documents. He will be speaking under the title,
Coteries? What Coteries?
Professor Arthur Marotti, is Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Wayne State
University, where taught from 1970 to 2010. He has also had visiting
appointments at The Johns Hopkins University, The University of
Michigan, and two Brazilian federal universities. He taught courses in
early modern English literature and culture and has a special interest
in lyric poetry, material textuality (especially poetry in manuscript)
and sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English Catholic culture. He is
the author of John Donne, Coterie Poet (1986); Manuscript, Print and the
English Renaissance Lyric (1995); and Religious Ideology and Cultural
Fantasy: Catholic and Anti-Catholic Discourses in Early Modern England
(2005). As well as a number of essay collections as editor and
contributor. His current projects include a book coauthored with Steven
May, on a 16th century Yorkshire Household Book, tentatively titled
"Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge and Queen Elizabeth: The Household Book of
John Hanson."
Concentric
Literary Circlees: Christ Church, Oxford Poetry, and the Circulation of
Manuscript Verse in Jacobean and Carline England
Join us in Foster Court 130 at UCL and for dinner afterwards.
Kind regards,
Hannah and Will
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