Iyengar, Sujata. Shades of Difference: Mythologies of Skin Color in Early Modern England. Philadelphia: UPenn Press, 2005.
I am looking right now at the section on greensickness in Chapter 6 (pp. 151-158). Her discussion of lovesickness v. greensickness is especially fruitful.
Twenty-five years after the publication of Suzanne Hull’s influential book, Chaste, Silent, and Obedient: English Books for Women, 1475-1640, this panel proposes to interrogate the critical legacy of this triad of early modern feminine virtues. In the burgeoning field of early modern gender studies, this three-part summary of patriarchal oppression has become a critical byword, and many critics have argued that each of the three terms were ideologically interchangeable.
But were these three virtues stable categories? Were they as universally accepted as early modern conduct writers (and many modern critics) would have us believe? How is chastity more than a simple absence? What epistemological and representational challenges did early modern writers face when trying to describe its “absent presence?” Similarly, can the verbal absence of silence “speak” or signify in uniquely gendered ways? Does it ever communicate *un*chastity and *dis*obedience as Christina Luckyj argues in her recent book? Is female obedience ever not passive? Do women writers or female characters ever define nontraditional authorities to obey? Did silence, chastity, and obedience affect women’s identity differently depending on class? Were these virtues represented differently depending on the genre of a work or the century in which it was written?
This panel invites papers that investigate literary and cultural negotiations of any or all of these virtues by women writers or in representations of female characters before 1800.
Please email 250 word abstracts to Jessica C. Murphy at jessica.c.murphy_at_gmail.com by September 15, 2007.
The conference is Northeast MLA in Buffalo, NY April 10-13, 2008.
Please see http://nemla.org/convention/index.html for more information.
CFP List is back online, but it is no longer sending out mass emails. You must visit the archive to see CFP’s. CFP archive at UPenn
An International Conference
Kansas City, Missouri
March 6-8, 2008
Keynote Lecturer, William Prizer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Louis L. Martz Lecturer, Sarah Blake McHam, Rutgers University
William B. Hunter Lecturer, William E. Wallace, Washington University
Papers (15-20 minutes in length) are invited on any aspect of Renaissance studies (history, art history, literature, music, philosophy, science, theology). Abstracts only (400-500 words; a shorter 100-word abstract for inclusion in the program) must be submitted online no later than December 1, 2007 via the SCRC website’s abstract submission form.
Sessions: sessions should be proposed no later than November 1, 2007 and e-mailed to the Program Chair (link given in contact info below). Abstracts of papers for approved sessions should be submitted online via the SCRC website’s abstract form.
Click here for further 2008 conference information, or contact the program chair:
Jill Carrington
School of Art
PO Box 13001, SFA Station
Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches TX 75962-3001
tel. 936-468-4351
fax 936-468-4041
Program participants are required to join SCRC and are encouraged to submit publication-length versions of their papers to the SCRC journal, Explorations in Renaissance Culture.
A limited number of graduate travel fellowships are available; graduate students presenting a paper at the conference may apply to the program chair for travel assistance (maximum $250). Complete essays must be submitted electronically by February 1 to be eligible for consideration. See the graduate travel fellowships page for instructions on how to apply.
See here for full infomation: http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~nydam/scrc/cfp_scrc2008.shtml
Snawsel, Robert. A looking-glasse for married folkes, wherein they may plainly see their deformities; and also how to behaue themselues one to another, and both of them towards God. Set forth dialogue-wise for the more tastable and plainnesse sake. London: Henry Bell, 1631.
Snawsel did not think that the English translation of Erasmus’s seven dialogues was quite enough because there still seemed to be so many unhappy marriages, so he expanded on one of them. In this dialogue, Eulaly and Abigail try to make Xantip over from a shrew to a sheep, and they also try to convince Xantip’s husband to be good.
The Huntington Library in San Marino has a pretty good copy. A nice little octavo for carrying around. EEBO’s copy of this edition is from the Bodleian, but there is a 1619 one in Texas. ESTC ID S117636
