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Extended Deadline: Gothic Renaissance, 03rd&04th December 2009, Cologne, Germany
| Location: | Germany |
| Call for Papers Date: | 2009-07-31 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2009-07-01 |
| Announcement ID: |
169408 |
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Gothic Renaissance
Symposium at the English Department,
University of Cologne
December 3-4, 2009
Call For Papers (extended deadline)
The connection between the Gothic and Shakespearean drama has been explored from the perspective of
gothic writers for a long time. Walpole's famous reference to Shakespeare in his preface to The Castle of
Otranto as a legitimising strategy of the new genre of the gothic novel was only the starting point of an
important series of gothic writers drawing on Shakespeare. Accordingly, scholarship on the gothic has
increasingly focussed on the various connections to Shakespearean texts. The intervention of Shakespearean
scholars in this field is only a recent development, most prominently stated in Gothic Shakespeares, ed. by
Drakakis/Townshend in 2008.
This new interest in exploring the proto‐gothic qualities of Shakespearean plays like Hamlet and Macbeth or A
Midsummer Night's Dream can be linked to the established traditions of critical readings of Shakespeare which
examine the author's interest in the supernatural and in ghostly apparitions, in magic and witchcraft, trauma,
horror, madness and death.
In this symposium we would like to enhance the dialogue recently opened up between scholars in the field of
Gothic and Renaissance studies. The symposium intends to continue the exploration of the relationship
between Shakespeare and the gothic and will also include other Renaissance texts. Thus the symposium on the
Gothic Renaissance will focus on drama, epic and prose narratives, ghost stories, pamphlets, treatises etc.
Re‐reading the cultural anxieties of the Renaissance through notions of the gothic sheds new light on the
interaction of conflicting discourses accompanying the emergence of Early Modern notions of gender, race,
nation and individual subjectivity and their negotiation in cultural forms and distinctive aesthetic genres. Thus,
this research will have repercussions on succeeding periods, such as the Restoration and necessitate a
reappraisal of late 17th‐ and early 18th‐century cultures.
A number of internationally renowned scholars have agreed to participate in this symposium and will present
their views on these issues from their specific areas of research. Among them are Fred Botting (Lancaster
University), Andrea Brady (Queen Mary, University of London), John Drakakis (University of Stirling), Mary
Floyd‐Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Katharine Goodland (City University of New York),
Andreas Höfele (Universität München), David Punter (University of Bristol), Duncan Salkeld (University of
Chichester), Winfried Schleiner (University of California, Davis), Garrett Sullivan (Pennsylvania State University),
Dale Townshend (University of Stirling), Richard Wilson (Cardiff University), and Scott Wilson (Lancaster
University).
Additionally, we solicit proposals for presentations addressing these concerns.
The deadline has been extented to July 31st.
Please submit your proposal in English (200‐300 words) to
Contact and Registration: gothic‐renaissance@uni‐koeln.de
Organised By:
Prof. Dr. Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne) and
Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Bronfen (University of Zürich)
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