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English Literature (to 1700) I: Bodies and Boundaries

Session 5 - Sunday 8:00-9:30am
Presiding Officer: 
Hilda Ma
Session Chair (if other than PO): 
Elizabeth Weixel
  1. “Beggary and Want” of Youth: The Devils of Poverty and Old Age in The Witch of Edmonton. Hilda Ma, Saint Mary's College of California

    This paper examines medical treatises and witchcraft trials alongside an exploration of The Witch of Edmonton, arguing that witches--as well as their crimes--were cultural constructions shaped by the early modern fear of poverty and post-menopause.

  2. Transgender Jesus: Hermaphrodites, Alchemy, and Julian of Norwich's Queer Logocentrism. Lisa Manter, Saint Mary's College of California

    Julian of Norwich's presentation of Jesus as Mother has typically been viewed as a feminizing of Christ, rather than a presentation of his alchemic and hermaphroditic nature. This paper looks at how this transgendering of Jesus functions within Julian's queer logocentrism.

  3. "Mirrours more than one": Body, Space, and Queerness in Spenser's Faerie Queene. Pilar Aguilar, University of Calgary

    This paper looks at how spaces and sexuality work in Spenser's Faerie Queene. Focusing on spaces from Book II, III, and IV, I provide a reading of the Faerie Queene that goes towards a theory of gender and space.

Session Type: 
Standing Session
Session Status: 
Closed