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📌 Please email earlymodernloneliness [at] gmail [dot] com for the recordings of these papers. A selection of these papers, in addition to two commissioned chapters, will be published in Hannah Yip and Thomas Clifton, eds, Writing Early Modern Loneliness, which is under contract with Palgrave Macmillan. 📌
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29 June 2021
08.30–09.20*
Introduction
Thomas Clifton (University of Birmingham) and Hannah Yip (University of Regina)
The Introduction will start at 09.00am BST, but please feel free to sign in using the Zoom link from 08.30am BST.
09.20–10.30
Keynote
Naomi Pullin (University of Warwick), ‘The Pleasures and Pains of Solitude and Sociability in Early Modern Britain’
Chair: Hannah Yip (University of Regina)
10.30–10.50
Break
10.50–12.40
Isolated Queens
James Taffe (Durham University), ‘“But she to be a Quene, and creuely handeled as was never sene”: Anne Boleyn and her gentlewomen in the Tower of London’
Michele Piscitelli (University of Birmingham), ‘“Beholding and contempling [sic] what she is”: The Origin of Elizabeth I’s Translation Talent and Faith During a Lonely 1544’
Birgitte Breemerkamp (Independent), ‘“God Has Punished Us”: The Queen of Bohemia’s Exile in The Hague (1621–1661)’
Chair: Thomas Clifton (University of Birmingham)
12.40–13.30
Lunch
13.30–15.20
Gender and Ambiguity
Effie Botonaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), ‘“I am like an owl in the desert”: The Experience of Isolation and Upper-Class Early Modern Women’
Marlene Dirschauer (Ludwig Maximilian University), ‘“My heart’s most secret thought”: The Loneliness of (Writing) Desire in Lady Mary Wroth’s Pamphilia to Amphilantus’
Bronwen Price (Independent), ‘“Still think on …”: Retreat, Engagement and Agency in Mary Chudleigh’s Works’
Chair: Naomi Pullin (University of Warwick)
15.20–15.40
Break
15.40–17.30
Solitary Prophets
Jane Kingsley-Smith (University of Roehampton), ‘How Could/Should Shakespeare be lonely?’
Marlin E. Blaine (California State University, Fullerton), ‘God’s Lonely Milton: Prophetic Alienation and its Recompenses in Paradise Lost’
Andrzej Tadeusz Staniszewski (Jagiellonian University), ‘God Hath Laid His Hand on Me. Alienation, Death of Others and Negotiating Catharsis in Early Modern Poland’
Kirsteen M. MacKenzie (Independent), ‘Under the Shadow of Widowerhood and Single Fatherhood: Loneliness in the Diary of Alexander Brodie of Brodie’ [Read Kirsteen’s blogpost here]
Chair: Michele Piscitelli (University of Birmingham)
11.00–11.20
Break
11.20–12.40
Keynote
Chair: Thomas Clifton (University of Birmingham)
12.40–13.30
Lunch
13.30–15.20
Religio-Political Dimensions
Rosamund Paice (Northumbria University), ‘Isolation in the Interregnum: The Poetry of Thomas, Lord Fairfax’
Dewi Alter (Cardiff University), ‘Charles Edwards’ Afflicted Man’s Testimony and Nonconformist Loneliness in the Restoration Age of Persecution’
Andrew R. Murphy (Virginia Commonwealth University), ‘William Penn’s Some Fruits of Solitude: Public Disgrace and Private Consolation’
Chair: Peter Auger (University of Birmingham)
15.20–15.40
Break
15.40–16.50
Keynote
Jenni Hyde (Lancaster University), ‘“Nor syng, nor to daunce alone”: Precarity, Loneliness and the Early Career Academic’
Chair: Hannah Yip (University of Regina)
16.50–18.00
‘Precarity and Independence’ Roundtable (Jenni Hyde, Kirsteen M. MacKenzie, Bronwen Price, James Taffe)
Chair: Hannah Yip (University of Regina)
*All times British Summer Time (BST)
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