Session Details

Friday, 07 January

189. Medieval and Early Modern Lives

8:30–9:45 a.m., 304A, LA Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Autobiography, Biography, and Life Writing

Presiding: Linda Haverty Rugg, Univ. of California, Berkeley

1. “The Usurer’s Lives: Commerce, Confession, and the Desire for Gain,” Scott Hiley, Northwestern Univ.

2. “Hoccleve’s Symptoms, Hoccleve’s Voice,” Julie Orlemanski, Harvard Univ.

3. “Ge Hong Online: What Medieval Chinese Autobiography Tells Us about the Self in the Digital Age,” Matthew Wells, Univ. of Kentucky, Lexington

4. “Reading Lyric for the Narrative: Tudor ‘Autobiographies’ of Ovid,” Lindsay Reid, Wilfrid Laurier Univ.

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