Exemplar and Exemplarity: Cervantes in Early Modern Europe

10 – 10.30  Registration and Coffee

10.40 – 11.30 Keynote 1:

Edwin Williamson (Exeter College, Oxford), The Fate of Don Quixote: From Exemplary Hero to Modern Character

11.30 – 1.00 Panel 1: Persiles, Byzantine Romance and Literary Fashion

Trudi Darby (King’s College London), Persiles and Sigismunda: An English Perspective

Jeremy Robbins (Edinburgh), Persiles

Jacqueline Glomski (King’s College London), Cervantes’s Persiles and Barclay’s Argenis: A Comparison

1.00 – 2.00  Lunch

2.00 – 3.40 Keynote 2:

Barry Ife (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), (Sub)editing the Persiles: Wrong Notes or Blue Notes?

Panel 2: Exemplarity

Barry Taylor (British Library), Exemplarity in and around the Novelas ejemplares

Paul Lewis-Smith (Bristol), The Complexity of ‘Exemplarity’ in the Novelas ejemplares

3.40 – 4.00 Tea

4.00 – 5.30 Panel 3: Novels at Home and Abroad

Noelia Cirnigliaro (Dartmouth College), Bringing Exemplarity Home: Spanish Short Novels after Cervantes

Esther Bautista Naranjo (Universidad de Castilla La Mancha), Cervantes and the Rise of the Modern Novel in France

Alexander Samson (University College London), James Mabbe’s Translation of the Exemplarie Novels

5.30  Reception

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Registration:

To register and pay online please complete the Online registration form

If you have queries about registering please contact:  Jane.Ferguson@sas.ac.uk at the Warburg.

The conference fee is £25 (£12.50 concessions) and includes teas, coffees, lunch and a wine reception.

Venue: Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB. Tel. (020) 7862 8949