Organizer and Chair: Kathleen Loysen (Montclair State University)
I propose a panel dedicated to examining how women authors saw themselves and how others saw women as authors in the European early modern period – essentially, the question of women’s prises de parole, or assuming for themselves the privilege of speaking and writing authoritatively. Examples can be taken from works known to be authored by women, or from those presented as if authored by women (and any ensuing textual manipulation that such a presentation would entail). Examples can be drawn from any genre, but papers are especially welcome which examine texts where women self-consciously reflect on their status as authors. The intent of the panel is to explore the notion of authorship itself: how women saw themselves as authors, and the ways in which women were presented as authors, authorities, and originators of multiple modes of discourse (both oral and written).
Abstracts of 150 words due 7/31/19 to loysenk@montclair.edu.
Renaissance Socity of America Conference (pending panel acceptance) is in Philadelphia, April 2-4, 2020.