Here, and Now: Unity of Place and Time for William Congreve and Aphra Behn
Date
Thu May 15th 2014, 5:00 - 6:30pm
Event Sponsor
Seminar on Enlightenment and Revolution, 1660–1830, a Stanford Humanities Center Research Workshop in Honor of John Bender
Location
Stanford Humanities Center, 424 Santa Teresa Street, Baker Room
Stanford Ph.D. candidate Erik Johnson (English) will workshop a pre-circulated paper on how the neoclassical unities of time and place help shape a new novel form in the Restoration and early eighteenth century, with a particular focus on the works of William Congreve and Aphra Behn. The unities of time and place have always been closely connected; the unity of place, never explicitly mentioned by Aristotle, was derived from the unity of time by his commentators. In Congreve and Behn, we see how this original connection is recovered by writers who produce both drama and prose fiction, and how the unities contribute to a new idea of setting.
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Refreshments provided; all are welcome; contact organizer to request pre-circulated reading
Contact Email
erikj09 [at] stanford.edu