MLA Commons | LLC 17th-Century English | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/ Activity feed for the group, LLC 17th-Century English. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:37:02 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 721593b1601eb008592ed7b92d2605ef Sarah Wall-Randell started the topic MLA 2026 CFP: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla-2026-cfp-ecocriticism-in-an-age-of-emergency/ Mon, 10 Mar 2025 18:24:39 -0400 <span style=”font-weight: 400;”>CFP for MLA 2026: Ecocriticism in an Age of Emergency</span>

<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature hav…[Read more]

]]> 0 878be761cb9ed1473efb89de08891f30 Carmen Nocentelli posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1912942/ Fri, 28 Feb 2025 16:10:46 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Eco-criticism in an Age of Emergency.” Eco-critical approaches to early modern literature have flourished since the turn of the twenty-first century. As the climate crisis continually becomes more urgent, however, the…[Read more]

]]> 0 94eb6279aec1e3a9c638d2b8a1339ddd Carmen Nocentelli started the topic MLA2026 - GOING GLOBAL: QUESTIONS, CHALLENGES, OPPORTUNITIES in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/mla2026-going-global-questions-challenges-opportunities/ Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:37:17 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Going Global: Questions, Challenges, Opportunities.” We seek papers that critically examine the methodological and theoretical implications of global frameworks in seventeenth-century studies. Of particular interest are…[Read more]

]]> 0 fe06ac3e48ac4b994a09abb0edd2827e Jane Hwang Degenhardt started the topic Call for self-nominations for appointment to the 17th-Century English LLC in the forum LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-the-17th-century-english-llc/ Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:00:04 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 0 c75cde83fef814e28911acbbdfa07505 Carmen Nocentelli deposited CFP: EARLY MODERN SOCIAL MEDIA (MLA 2025) in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1876630/ Thu, 15 Feb 2024 03:06:52 -0500 The MLA Forum on Seventeenth-Century English Studies (LLC 17th-Century English) invites submissions for a guaranteed session on “Early Modern Social Media.” We are particularly interested in research that addresses the power of both established and emerging media—ballads, pamphlets, newsletters, pasquinades, and so forth—to amplify the gravity…[Read more]

]]> 0 df43c92f07f1ba283b7d3fd601a9bb1f Richard A. Strier replied to the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee/#post-1036534 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:28:10 -0500 Dear Professor Su Fan Ng,

I might be willing to help out, BUT I have to tell you that I no longer attend MLA, and could only work virtually.

Richard Strier
Sulzberger Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus
Editor, Modern Philology, 2004-2016
Department of English
University of…[Read more]

]]> 0 ead9e249332e55a8432ace6a076f36d1 Su Fang Ng started the topic Call for Self-Nominations for Appointment to Executive Committee in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/call-for-self-nominations-for-appointment-to-executive-committee-3/ Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:27:54 -0500 Dear all:We are calling for self-nominations for appointment to the Executive Committee of the LLC 17th-Century English. One new member is appointed annually for a five-year term. Our major work on the EC is to organize panels at the MLA convention. In some years we also nominate a delegate to represent the forum. The eligibility requirements…[Read more]

]]> 0 73787bcd81ce6c8ce004306b28b54668 Vimala C. Pasupathi deposited "TEACHING WITH COMMONPLACE BOOKS IN THE AGE OF #RELATABLECONTENT" in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1857154/ Fri, 01 Sep 2023 01:08:57 -0400 An Essay about a Commonplace book assignment I wrote and tested in 2012 (published in Journal of Interactive Technology & Pedagogy in 2014) and have since revisited and reflected upon. The essay goes into more detail about aspects of my assignment that I had not discussed in my earlier, and more practical, publication for JITP––more spe…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0dd18ed9c3be4c721f4b0d51c11551d Christopher Warren deposited Who Rpinted Shakespeare’s Fourth Folio? in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1854430/ Thu, 10 Aug 2023 01:10:23 -0400 According to Fredson Bowers, writing in Shakespeare Quarterly in 1951, we will never know the printer of that section “until we know everything there is to be learned about seventeenth-century types.” 2 Bowers doubted we could ever list the full set of F4’s printers because F4 was printed anonymously, and the volume left few clues about its…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8522cf8e1bf1e03f644ab3d5063e660 Lara A. Dodds started the topic CFP for MLA 2023 17thC English in the discussion LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-for-mla-2023-17thc-english/ Thu, 10 Mar 2022 18:54:09 -0500 Please consider submitting a proposal to one of the three panels sponsored by LLC 17th-Century English:

1. Open Topic Seventeenth-Century Literature

We seek new work on any topic in non-dramatic British literature of the seventeenth century. All approaches/methodologies are welcomed. 250-word abstracts. Deadline for submissions: Tuesday, 15…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c9db43c0ec9ec1b245cfdfb6d90a140 Sarah Werner deposited Books and Early Modern Culture in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1723734/ Tue, 19 Jan 2021 02:26:06 -0500 The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the history of books by focusing on books and early modern culture. By learning about how books were made and how books were used, students will gain a clearer appreciation of how early modern culture was shaped by and was a shaping force in the development of print culture. The archival…[Read more]

]]> 0 aaf036cee53fd607192f62ac0efb2d2c Christopher Warren deposited Damaged Type and Areopagitica's Clandestine Printers in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1706764/ Sat, 29 Aug 2020 02:23:39 -0400 Milton’s Areopagitica (1644) is one of the most significant texts in the history of the freedom of the press, and yet the pamphlet’s clandestine printers have successfully eluded identification for over 375 years. By examining distinctive and dam-aged type pieces from 100 pamphlets from the 1640s, this article att…[Read more]

]]> 0 a8d256c11e0e1ccd015fe3b5c103a92f Hugh M. Richmond deposited Renaissance Landscapes in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1643648/ Tue, 02 Jul 2019 03:51:11 -0400 Hugh M. Richmond, “Renaissance Landscapes,” Mouton, 1973; De Gruyter 2019.

This study explores some of the significant points in the evolution of a literary pattern, a recognizable topic or motif which captures attention through the poet’s mastery of language, which records the nuances of human awareness of each period. The author coins this…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a9896fd1a2db7aa150a7413e724e50f Flavio Gregori deposited Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1636819/ Sun, 31 Mar 2019 03:50:06 -0400 “Passions, Emotions and Cognition in the Long Eighteenth-Century Literature in England”
4th issue of journal “English Literature: Theories, Interpretations, Contexts” (Flavio Gregori, ed.).

Contents:
Michael McKeon: “Aesthetic Cognition: Feeling the Emotions of Others”;
Margaret A. Doody: “The Actor, the Mirror, the Soul and the Sylph “…[Read more]

]]> 0 8310b723da0ea97e5ccfb44e95f70e3d Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Adam's Presumptuous, Adventurous, Bold, and Righteous (Re)Quest in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1633301/ Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:48:46 -0500 How in at least one instance Adam, in John Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” relentlessly pursues his desires — ostensibly against God’s will; and certainly in face of Raphael’s increasing disquiet — without experiencing a fall.

]]> 0 a6ecf6b7b7dd490b56b102c748473c3f Patrick McEvoy-Halston deposited Having Your Beefcake, and Leaving Him Too in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1631450/ Fri, 08 Feb 2019 16:43:52 -0500 Exploration of how Aphra Behn uses her textual creation “Oronnoko” to engage in a guiltless sexual affair that bypasses all societal and inner-psychic censors.

]]> 0 d7d087dcec9d346e7e5abc7a79526c09 Christopher Warren deposited Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718: Transnational Reception in English Political Thought in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1630032/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 03:51:14 -0500 Review for The Seventeenth Century of Oona A. Hathaway and Scott J. Shapiro, _The Internationalists: How a Radical Plan to Outlaw War Changed the World_ and Marco Barducci, _Hugo Grotius and the Century of Revolution, 1613-1718_

]]> 0 5a80878587fca1f9df085b560bc76db2 Patricia Akhimie deposited "Bruised with Adversity": Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1619908/ Wed, 03 Oct 2018 16:39:23 -0400 “‘Bruised with Adversity’: Reading Race in The Comedy of Errors” examines the role of the body, and of the somatic mark in particular, in the social production of both individual subjects and racial groups. In The Comedy of Errors, two sets of twins experience the benefits as well as the pitfalls of mistaken identity, revealing the ease with which…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ec12a7dc60f925246050bed92e5adb0 Carol Zuses started the topic Membership Suggestions for 2019 Forum Delegate Election in the discussion Seventeenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/membership-suggestions-for-2019-forum-delegate-election-12/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 12:30:33 -0400 The next election for this forum’s Delegate Assembly representative will be held in the fall of 2019, and the forum’s executive committee will take up the matter of nominations for this election when it meets during the January 2019 convention in Chicago. Though the executive committee is responsible for making nominations, it is required to nom…[Read more]

]]> 0 52952a66bd3ebaf87163183b73d8e443 Jen Boyle started the topic CFP MLA 2019: Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions in the discussion Seventeenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2019-fragile-sovereignty-precarious-transactions/ Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:26:20 -0500 2019 MLA Convention

Special Session CFP

Fragile Sovereignty, Precarious Transactions

The promise of becoming in mediated transactions is fragile and unpredictable. Such transactions

might act as an instrument of interpellation that produces sovereign subjects, on the one hand,

and precarious objects, on the other hand. Or, as is often the…[Read more]

]]> 0 4f426f97fca2898dd622d83b26a6410f Steve Mentz deposited Strange Weather in King Lear in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1593164/ Thu, 21 Dec 2017 05:38:26 -0500 This article argues that King Learn can help re-shape ecocriticism. The play’s focus on human dis-harmony with the nonhuman environment resonates with the “post-equilibrium shift” in ecological thinking. The play’s emphasis on the way natural systems such as the weather disrupt human meaning-making generates an alternative to dualistic notions of…[Read more]

]]> 0 03fe70a783ba2627a1adec80c084e392 Christopher Warren deposited Henry V, Anachronism, and the History of International Law in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1579345/ Mon, 21 Aug 2017 01:02:54 -0400 Historians, literary scholars, and international lawyers interested in the early modern period have all grappled with the problem of anachronism, yet mostly independently of one another. This essay uses the question of war crime in Shakespeare’s Henry V to argue that early modernists interested in international law need not reject synchronic h…[Read more]

]]> 0 59be25f7b076f7aed2beb8c85ab9e93e Sarah Werner deposited Working with EEBO and ECCO in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1573763/ Sun, 11 Jun 2017 01:03:33 -0400 A how-to lesson on working with Early English Books Online and Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, focusing both on the basics of searching and navigating interfaces and on thinking about remediation on how EEBO and ECCO represent material texts. Presented originally at Edinburgh’s “Beyond the Black Box” series in May 2017.

]]> 0 c5867f05ad1aa874cc86760ed73ba8c0 Hugh M. Richmond deposited Proto-Feminism: Seductions in Shakespeare and Milton in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1564319/ Sat, 11 Mar 2017 20:15:01 -0500 One of the most familiar literary topics is the seduction scene. Both Shakespeare and Milton enhance this tradition by shifting the motives offered by the seducer to ones fitting increasingly autonomous and ambitious women, foreshadowing many of the concerns of modern feminism.

]]> 0 243de6c78909a5b092f04f182f47b58b Richard A. Strier started the topic NEH SEMINAR ON KING LEAR in the discussion Seventeenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/17th-century-english/forum/topic/neh-seminar-on-king-lear-3/ Wed, 02 Nov 2016 21:13:36 -0400 This summer (July, 2017), Richard Strier is directing an NEH seminar on King Lear — text, sources, criticism, afterlife, etc. — at the U of Chicago.  All interested tenured, tenure-track, and full-time non-tenure-track instructors at colleges and universities are invited to apply.  The 16 accepted applicants will receive a stipend to attend t…[Read more]

]]> 0 427b3418e7100b175e19686c5de49996 Christopher Warren deposited Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: A Statistical Method for Reconstructing Large Historical Social Networks in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552710/ Wed, 26 Oct 2016 12:59:12 -0400 In this paper we present a statistical method for inferring historical social networks from biographical documents as well as the scholarly aims for doing so. Existing scholarship on historical social networks is scattered across an unmanageable number of disparate books and articles. A researcher interested in how persons were connected to one…[Read more]

]]> 0 4545fd3c3798ff060732cf5acdda68da Christopher Warren deposited When Self-Preservation Bids: Approaching Milton, Hobbes, and Dissent in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552473/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:28:36 -0400 Critics have long used the heuristic device of opposing John Milton and Thomas Hobbes, but this essay explores surprising affinities between the two. After observing that Milton and other Restoration dissenters often agreed with Hobbes on questions of ecclesiastic jurisdiction and toleration nearly as much as they disagreed with what seemed at…[Read more]

]]> 0 0d39462ac61a5a32becda97b115a2c9d Cristina León Alfar deposited "Elizabeth Cary’s Female Trinity: Breaking Custom with Mosaic Law in THE TRADGEY OF MARIAM" in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552333/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 18:02:47 -0400 Giving voice to women who suffer the brunt of masculine anxieties, THE TRAGEDY OF MARIAM privileges what I call “feminine anxieties” in its depiction of all the female characters, especially in the trinity of Mariam, Doris, and Salome. By depicting women who defy convention, the play stages women’s multiple perspectives on, reactions again…[Read more]

]]> 0 9f556d51b69d7e9048a2d80f3e8f5ccb Cristina León Alfar deposited "'Blood will have blood:' Power, Performance, and Lady Macbeth's Gender Trouble" in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/552303/ Tue, 18 Oct 2016 17:52:07 -0400 Shakespeare’s MACBETH interrogates the tyranny of absolute monarchical practices and divorces them from naturalized gender constructions by placing Lady Macbeth at the center of the play’s violence. I argue that she provides a parodic inversion of the ideal wife and and puts pressure on masculinist and violent structures of relations that depend…[Read more]

]]> 0 c2d0c1fcab4fe471652572801d9554f6 Hugh M. Richmond deposited Challenges and Rewards for Digital Humanities in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/551117/ Fri, 16 Sep 2016 18:57:05 -0400 The English Department at U.C. Berkeley has developed two multimedia humanities websites at “Shakespeare’s Staging” and “Milton Revealed,” illustrating classic rewards and problems in digital humanities programs. Users are uniformly positive about the simple, selective, and fully organized structure. Visits are numerous, averaging 200-400 p…[Read more]

]]> 0 2a7dccdec10add822000e792e6405208 Hugh M. Richmond deposited John Milton: the First Modern in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/547285/ Thu, 21 Apr 2016 19:47:08 -0400 John Milton is a hero to Millennials: C. S. Lewis based Perelandra on Paradise Lost; Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials Trilogy mirrors the epic; Mark Morris’s best ballet is “L’Allegro and Il Penseroso”; digital artist Terrance Lindall created virtual images of Paradise Lost for the Oxford U. Press; Comus is the originator and lead Krewe for…[Read more]

]]> 0 a9148ce2f11e2d0cb08aa14183345195 Sarah Werner deposited When Is A Source Not a Source? in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/539274/ Fri, 22 Jan 2016 14:51:42 -0500 Nearly all scholars who work on medieval or early modern texts at some point work from digital facsimiles. There are advantages and disadvantages to such objects: what they might offer in terms of convenience and availability, they lack in material information. We can adjust the nature of what questions we ask of which object, consulting digital…[Read more]

]]> 0 fc718f8878456e91816baae55048ebc4 Peter C. Herman deposited review: The Complete Works of John Milton, Volume III: The Shorter Poems in the group LLC 17th-Century English https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/536720/ Wed, 16 Dec 2015 23:48:23 -0500 This article is a review of the Haan-Lewalski OUP edition of Milton’s shorter. The book, I argue, is inexcusably difficult to use, and suggests that perhaps the time has come to replace long, very expensive tomes with digital editions.

]]> 0 2ab55854b4ec72550cd34912b31f438f Janet Ruth Heller posted an update in the group LLC 17th-Century English: Dear Colleagues, Joyce Meier of Michigan State University […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/271015/ Wed, 22 Jul 2015 04:33:55 -0400 Dear Colleagues,

Joyce Meier of Michigan State University and I are editing a collection of scholarly essays on the theme of Voice and Empowerment in English studies. Cambridge Scholars Publishing is interested in publishing this book.

As faculty members, we try to empower our students and to encourage them to develop their own voices. We also…[Read more]

]]> 0 116e638fea4b857dfd6350013a9bf797 Sharon Achinstein started the topic CFP MLA 2016: 17-Century Britain and/or/in Europe in the discussion Seventeenth-Century English Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-century-english-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2016-17-century-briatin-andorin-europe/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 14:41:45 -0400 17th-Century Britain/and/or/in Europe
Special Session
A panel reframing geographical and literary contours: literary, political, or philosophical concerns; networks; thinking beyond ‘Crisis’; questioning current institutional barriers. 300 word abstract by 21 March 2015; Sharon Achinstein (sachins1@jhu.edu) and Anston Bosman (abosman@amherst.edu).

]]> 0 3c91e89825fb0591a532684c362caab1 Karen Gevirtz started the topic CFP: Aphra Behn Society sessions at ASECS in the forum Seventeenth-Century English Literature http://mla.hcommons.org/groups/seventeenth-century-english-literature/forum/topic/cfp-aphra-behn-society-sessions-at-asecs-2/ Wed, 16 Jul 2014 13:10:40 -0400 The Aphra Behn Society will be hosting two sessions at ASECS in 2015. Abstracts due to session organizers by September 1, 2014.

SESSION 1:

Collaborations: Women in the Arts

Dr. Carolyn Woodward

writecjw@gmail.com

During most of the eighteenth century, copyright was still in flux and of benefit mainly to booksellers. Although in the middle of…[Read more]

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