Session Details
242. Rethinking the Category of Love: Cognition, Emotion, and Biopolitics
Monday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 619, WSCC
Program arranged by the Division on Middle English Language and Literature, Excluding Chaucer
Presiding: Glenn D. Burger, Queens Coll., City Univ. of New York; Marilynn R. Desmond, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York
Speakers: Christian Beck, Univ. of Central Florida; Holly Crocker, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia; Aranye Fradenburg, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara; Wan-Chuan Kao, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York; Sarah Powrie, Saint Thomas More Coll.
Session Description:
In addressing the long and significant critical history concerning love in the Middle Ages, this roundtable will question what that history has left out or occluded. It will consider what new directions might be indicated when we look at the role of cognition, emotion, and biopolitics in premodern representations of love.
Subject:
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British Literature – Old and Middle English