Marathon Reading of Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene

The event will begin with a mini-conference on Friday morning, with lectures by Dr Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol), the author of Edmund Spenser and the Romance of Space (Manchester UP, 2019), and others. These lectures will introduce you to the literary, cultural and linguistic contexts of Spenser’s work and thereby prepare you for the reading. The reading itself will begin on Friday afternoon and end on Sunday evening. Participants should bring a copy of The Faerie Queene to the event. Recommend edition: Penguin Classics.  

Students, staff and other interested people are cordially invited to the mini-conference and the reading. Students wishing to attend the entire event can also book it as a 2-credit-point module (enrolment via Sisu or e-mail to Johannes Riquet).   

Programme  

Introductory lectures on Friday morning (10.00-12.30):  

Tamsin Badcoe (University of Bristol), "'Navigating The Faerie Queene's Geographies (and the Importance of Getting Lost)"  

Mark Kaunisto (Tampere University), “How Archaicke was Spenser’s Language? Examining the OED and Diachronic Corpora”  

Kevin McGinley (Tampere University), "Spenser’s Monsters”  

Johannes Riquet (Tampere , “'Replete with magick artes': Witchcraft, Magic and the Reader in Spenser's The Faerie Queene”  

Marathon reading:  

Friday 14:00-24:00, Saturday 9.00-24.00, Sunday 10.00-24.00