Anglo-French Imagining
A conference on early modern French and English literature
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Glendon College, York University (Toronto, Canada) and the University of Richmond (Virginia, USA) announce the first joint conference on Early Modern French and English Literature to be held at Glendon College (York University) on Saturday, October 4th, 2008.
The conference topic will be:
Imagining a Common Past in Early Modern England and France.
The histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of England and France have been inextricably linked since the Norman Conquest in 1066, and never more so than in the period between the Hundred Years War and the end of the seventeenth century - a time that also sees the birth of England and France as nation-states and global empires. This conference invites scholarship in both English and French from a broad range of disciplines (e.g. literature, linguistics, history, historiography, comparative literature, cultural studies, art history, etc.) that focuses primarily on the early modern English and French imagination of the medieval period: the nature of their memory of a shared past, and the multiple "uses" of it in early modern public discourse and culture. Also welcome are papers exploring aspects of the medieval period which later become the subject of early modern memory.
Keynote Address:
Prof. Mary Catherine Davidson, Glendon College, York University.
A collaboration between
