Christopher Highley from Ohio State University delivers a talk titled “‘Our little state in the Blackfriars’: Neighbourhood and Identity in a London Liberty.” This talk was included in the session titled “Neighbourhood.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

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‘Our little state in the Blackfriars’: Neighbourhood and Identity in a London Liberty

Frances Dolan from University of California, Davis, delivers a talk titled “Hedges.” This talk was included in the session titled “Neighbourhood.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Hedges

Dan Beaver from Pennsylvania State University delivers a talk titled “Politics or Perish?: Neighbourliness and ‘maleficium’ on the Atlantic Margins.” This talk was included in the session titled “Neighbourhood.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Politics or Perish?: Neighbourliness and ‘maleficium’ on the Atlantic Margins

John M. Adrian from University of Virginia’s College at Wise delivers a talk titled “Archbishop Parker, Canterbury, and the Practice of Hospitality in Queen Elizabeth’s 1573 Progress through Kent.” This talk was included in the session titled “Region.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Archbishop Parker, Canterbury, and the Practice of Hospitality in Queen Elizabeth’s 1573 Progress through Kent

Andrew McRae from University of Exeter delivers a talk titled “The Beauty of Woods in 17th-century England.” This talk was included in the session titled “Region.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

The Beauty of Woods in 17th-century England

Stuart Elden from University of Warwick delivers a talk titled “Denmark, Norway, Poland: Regional Geopolitics in ‘Hamlet.’” This talk was included in the session titled “Region.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Denmark, Norway, Poland: Regional Geopolitics in “Hamlet”

Steve Hindle from The Huntington welcomes participants and attendees to “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Welcoming Remarks by Steve Hindle

Tiffany Stern from Royal Holloway, University of London, delivers a talk titled “Houses in the Playhouse.” This talk was included in the session titled “House.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Houses in the Playhouse

Julie Sanders from Newcastle University and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr., from Pennsylvania State University deliver the opening remarks for “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Opening Remarks by Julie Sanders and Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr.

Mary Floyd-Wilson from University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, delivers a talk titled “‘When thou hast stolen away from fairy land’: The Habitation of Airy Nothing in ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’” This talk was included in the session titled “Body.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

‘When thou hast stolen away from fairy land’: The Habitation of Airy Nothing in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”

Michael Schoenfeldt from University of Michigan delivers a talk titled “Places of Pleasure and Pain: Environment and Sensation in Spenser and Milton.” This talk was included in the session titled “Body.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Places of Pleasure and Pain: Environment and Sensation in Spenser and Milton

Tiffany Werth from Simon Fraser University delivers a talk titled “‘Unwelcome stones’ and Mineralizing the Human in Renaissance England.” This talk was included in the session titled “Body.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Unwelcome stones’ and Mineralizing the Human in Renaissance England

Matthew Johnson from Northwestern University delivers a talk titled “Houses, Towers, and Castles in the Early Modern British Isles: Literary and Material Geographies.’” This talk was included in the session titled “House.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Houses, Towers, and Castles in the Early Modern British Isles: Literary and Material Geographies

Julia Reinhard Lupton from University of California, Irvine, delivers a talk titled “Shakespeare Dwelling: Keeping House in ‘Cymbeline.’” This talk was included in the session titled “House.” Part of “Early Modern Literary Geographies,” a conference held at The Huntington Oct. 14–15, 2016.

Shakespeare Dwelling: Keeping House in “Cymbeline”

Experts in the literature, history, geography, and archaeology of 16th- and 17th-century Britain examine four key geographic sites—body, house, neighborhood, and region—to illuminate the important spatial structures and concepts that define the early modern engagement with the world. The conference was held at The Huntington on Oct. 14–15, 2016.

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