SSEMW-sponsored Paper Session at SAA 2019 — Deadline Jan. 29, 2018

The Society for the Study of Early Modern Women sponsors one paper seminar at each Shakespeare Association of America Annual Meeting, and we now solicit your proposals for SAA 2019, to be held in Washington, DC from April 17 to April 20, 2019. Proposals submitted both to SAA and SSEMW, or only to SSEMW, are welcome. The chosen proposal will be recognized as the SSEMW seminar in the conference program. Please note that seminar proposals *need not* be focused on Shakespeare; early modern women's writing and related topics are also welcome at this conference. In 2017, SSEMW- sponsored SAA seminar…
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New Publication: The Concept of Conversation

Dear SSEMW, Julie Campbell was kind enough to suggest I might mention my upcoming book on this list-serv, although I'm not a regular member. *The Concept of Conversation: From Cicero’s Sermo to the Grand Siècle’s Conversation* will be published by Edinburgh University Press in February 2018--I'm putting the abstract and the Table of Contents at the bottom of this post. The book's ambitions include putting the growth of conversation as a mode of rhetoric--and hence, as a development after ca. 1400, speech with and among women--at the center of both the history of rhetoric in particular and the larger intellectual…
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