Gastvortrag am 05.06.2023

30. Mai 2023, von JH

Im Rahmen der Vorlesungsreihe „Key Concepts of English Literature and Culture: The Early Modern Period” hält Prof. Dr. Kirsten Sandrock (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) am 05.06.2023 um 16:15 Uhr eine Gastvorlesung in Raum Ü35-00129-02. Die Vorlesung trägt den Titel "The Age of Exploration: Travel Writing and Utopian Literature". Alle Interessierten sind herzlich eingeladen.

 
"The Age of Exploration: Travel Writing and Utopian Literature"

The lecture explores the links between early modern travel writing and the rise of utopian literature. It specifically looks at Thomas More's Utopia (1516), Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beautiful Empire of Guiana (1595) and Robert Gordon's Encouragements, For Such as Shall Have Intention to Bee Vnder-takers in the New Plantation of Cape Briton (1625). Together, these texts illustrate how strongly the age of exploration is characterized by utopian thinking but also how each utopia contains the seeds of a dystopia. 

Prof. Dr. Kirsten Sandrock is Chair of English literature and Cultural Studies at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Her research ranges from early modern literature and culture to contemporary Anglophone studies, and she has published widely on intercultural encounters, colonial and postcolonial studies, Shakespeare, travel writing, gender and genre studies. She is the author of Scottish Colonial Literature: Writing the Atlantic 1603-1707 (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), co-editor of Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions (2013) and of the Shakespeare Seminar Online.