London Renaissance Seminar: On the Road
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck Main Building, Malet Street
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Sue Wiseman (Birkbeck, University of London) ‘Lucy Hutchinson walks in the park: Elegy, Monument, Epitaph’
Becky Tomlin (Birkbeck)‘ “I trac’d him too and fro”; narratives of neighbourhood on the early modern stage’
Professor James Loxley (University of Edinburgh) ‘Performative Chorography: Ben Jonson Walking’
Discussion of the ways in which our understanding of the meaning and implications of Ben Jonson's celebrated walk to Edinburgh in the summer of 1618 has been altered by the account of the journey discovered in Cheshire Archives in 2009. The ‘Foot Voyage’ narrative has presented us with numerous editorial and interpretative questions. Why did Jonson go? What did it mean for him to walk all the way? What is the status of the surviving account? Who accompanied him? What can we make of his interactions with his hosts? In seeking to answer these questions, it has been possible to build a detailed and, in some respects, surprising picture of this unique event.
Contact name:
Sue Wiseman