This one-day symposium will focus on the ways in which the idea of the north was understood, imagined and represented in the writing of the early modern period. We invite proposals for 20 minute papers that consider early modern literary or cultural engagements with the north, either as a geographical space or an intellectual concept. Also welcome are considerations of the significance of the north in the textual or performance afterlives of Renaissance works.
Themes to address might include, but are not limited to:
Please send 250-300 word abstracts to [log in to unmask]
Closing date for proposals: 26/04/2013