Early Modern Paratexts 2013

University of Bristol, Clifton Hill House, Friday 26^th July

9.00-9.30              Registration and Coffee

9.30-9.40              Seating and Welcome

9.40-11.00            Panel 1, Wills Reception Room                    

People of the Paratext

Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin

‘Early Modern Women’s Poetry, Form and Paratext’

Colm MacCrossan, Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership, Oxford ‘Performing Patronage in the Headers of Richard Hakluyt’s The Principal Navigations (1598-1600)’

Tamara Atkin, Queen Mary, and Emma Smith, Hertford College Oxford

‘Actors, Speakers and Personated Persons: Character Lists as Paratexts in Early Modern Plays’

11.00-11.30                   Coffee

11.30-12.50                   Panel 2, Wills Reception Room                    

Prefacing the Text                  

Ben Crabstick, Independent Scholar

‘ “I shall deserve of the age”: Humphrey Moseley and the Publisher’s Preface’

Harriet Archer, Christ Church College Oxford

‘Rewriting History: The Unstable Texts and Paratexts of John Higgins’s Mirror for Magistrates (1574-1587)’

Harry Newman, Kent

‘ “[M]y intentions herein are honest and iust”: Prefacing Printed Gynaecological and Obstetrical Texts in Early Modern England’

Panel 3, Symonds Music Room                 

‘And another thing ...’

Tom Charlton, Stirling

‘ “Place these three Letters as marked’: the Reliquiæ Baxterianæ, Interpolation and Paratext’

Marion Löffler, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies

‘Translation, Education and Politics: Paratexts in 1790s Wales’   

Martina Pranić, Free University Berlin

‘The Meaning in the Paratext: Changing Perspectives on  Marin Držić’s Conspiratorial Episode’

12.50-2.00            Lunch

2.00-3.20              Panel 4, Wills Reception Room      

The Paratext Proper

Camilla Temple, Bristol

‘The Emblem Book Epic and its Trans-European Readership: a Sixteenth-century Edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses’

Sophie Butler, New College Oxford

‘ “I Present thee Reader with no excellencies”: Paratextual Readers and Writers of Essays in Early Modern England’

Katherine Hunt, Birkbeck

‘Shuffled Knowledge: Text and Paratext in Early Modern Didactic Playing Cards’

                                    Panel 5, Symonds Music Room       

Disrupting Reading

Bláithín Hurley, St John’s College Cambridge

‘Paratextual Paradigms or Decorative Distractions: Illustrations in the Music Instrument Manuals of Sylvestro di Ganassi’

Lynsey McCulloch, Coventry, and Rob Tovey, Worcester

‘Designing the Early Modern Frontispiece: “All this literature is book-nurtured and book-bound” ’

Rachel Stenner, Bristol

‘Books and Things: William Caxton’s Erroneous Texts’

3.20-3.50              Tea

3.50-5.10              Panel 6, Wills Reception Room      

Shaping and Reshaping

Peter Kirwan, Nottingham

‘ “The doubtful title, gentlemen, prefixed”: Paratextual Truth Claims and Authenticity in the “Shakespeare Apocrypha” ’

Judith Atty, Queen Mary

‘Changing Paratext, Changing Meaning: from Les Antiquitez to Ruines of Rome’

Laura Moretti, Emmanuel College Cambridge

‘Ensuring Popularity: the Clever Use of Paratext in the Multiple Editions of a Japanese Early Modern Bestseller’

                                    Panel 7, Symonds Music Room       

Reading Materials

Peter Auger, Oxford

‘Printed Marginalia as Punctuation’

Lucy Razzall, Emmanuel College Cambridge

‘Printed Repositories in Early Modern England’

Rebecca Bullard, Reading

‘Signs of the times?  Reading Signatures in Two Late Seventeenth-century Secret Histories’

5.10-5.20              Comfort Break

5.20-6.10              Plenary Address, Wills Reception Room

Helen Smith, York

‘Negotiating Paratexts’

6.10-6.30              Closing Discussion, Wills Reception Room

6.30-8.00              Drinks Reception

Early Modern Paratexts 2013 Conference Website

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