IMC 2011: Sessions
Session 703: The History of British Women's Writing 700-1500: New Perspectives - A Round Table Discussion
Tuesday 12 July 2011, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for Medieval & Early Modern Research (MEMO), Swansea University / Institute of Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Aberystwyth-Bangor Consortium |
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| Organiser: | Liz Herbert McAvoy, Department of English Language & Literature, Swansea University |
| Moderator/Chair: | Diane Watt, Department of English Literature & Creative Writing, Aberystwyth University |
| Abstract | 700-1500 is a period of literary history often marginalised in accounts of British women's writing, standing apart from other periods for a whole range of complex reasons. Such reasons provide the rationale behind the forthcoming A History of British Women's Writing 700-1500 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011-12), the contributors to which offer new paradigms for how we should be thinking about the concept of women's writing in the pre-modern period. In this round table discussion the book's editors, Liz Herbert McAvoy and Diane Watt, along with some of their contributors, therefore debate the issues of 'British', 'Women' and 'Writing', asking us to rethink their meaning as they pertain to the medieval period. Participants include Liz Herbert McAvoy (Swansea University), Shari Horner (Shippensburg University), Clare A. Lees (King's College London), Susan A. Niebrzydowski (Bangor University), Gillian R. Overing (Wake Forest University, North Carolina), and Diane Watt (Aberystwyth University). |