IMC 2005: Sessions
Session 1512: The Uses of Boys
Thursday 14 July 2005, 09.00-10.30
Organiser: | Jeffrey J. Cohen, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
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Moderator/Chair: | Jeffrey J. Cohen, Department of English, George Washington University, Washington, DC |
Paper 1512-a | Puerulus (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Language and Literature - Latin |
Paper 1512-b | The Child Christ and Pigs in the Oven (Language: English) Index terms: Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Language and Literature - Middle English |
Paper 1512-c | Richard II is/as a Child (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Middle English, Political Thought |
Abstract | This panel investigates how boyhood is constructed at some pivotal moments in English history: in post-conquest Norwich, as a local adolescent who had been brutally murdered is transformed into an innocent and tender saint; in an apocryphal Middle English tale, as Jesus transforms his Jewish playmates into pigs; & in the rhetorical construction of a twenty year old King Richard as a baffled boy at the mercy of scheming adults. |