Early Modern Texts and Textiles: In Honor of Carole Levin

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Queen Elizabeth I Society

Organizer Name

Anna Riehl Bertolet

Organizer Affiliation

Auburn Univ.

Presider Name

Kavita Mudan Finn

Presider Affiliation

Independent Scholar

Paper Title 1

Dressing Queens (and Some Others): Signifying through Clothing in Mary Wroth's Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Presenter 1 Name

Mary Ellen Lamb

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Southern Illinois Univ.-Carbondale

Paper Title 2

"Is not parchment made of sheepskins?": Shakespeare's Text(tiles) and Other Haptic Things

Presenter 2 Name

John W. Gulledge

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Emory Univ.

Paper Title 3

Of "Fresh Invention Planted": The Early Modern Knot Garden as a Poetic Device

Presenter 3 Name

Deborah Solomon

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Auburn Univ.

Paper Title 4

Early Modern Sonnet Material: Hearts on Paper Sleeves?

Presenter 4 Name

Nancy Hayes

Presenter 4 Affiliation

St. Ambrose Univ.

Paper Title 5

Texts and Textiles at the Age of Elizabeth I

Presenter 5 Name

Anna Riehl Bertolet

Start Date

10-5-2018 3:30 PM

Session Location

Bernhard 210

Description

This panel explores texts and textiles: the language of clothing in Mary Wroth's Urania and at the courts of Elizabeth I and Anne of Denmark; animal skins as clothing and writing matter; the language of emotion on the pages of early modern sonnets; and the ways in which garden design meets poetic metaphor. This panel is lovingly dedicated to Carole Levin, a scholar whose cultural biography of Elizabeth I, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, broke the ground for the study of medieval and early modern queenship.

Anna Bertolet