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Julie Orlemanski on Resistant Microcosms

Department of English Lecture Series:

Resistant Microcosm:
Subjectivity and Medicine
in Late Medieval England

Julie Orlemanski
Assistant Professor of English
University of Chicago
Mellon Fellow, Huntington Library, 2013-14

Friday, March 14, 2014
12:00-2:00 pm

Lunch will be served.

julie orlemanski is completing a book, “Symptomatic Subjects: Bodies, Signs, and Narratives in Late Medieval England,” which investigates the interpretation of bodily
signs in the later Middle Ages. Poets like Geoffrey Chaucer, Thomas Hoccleve, and Robert Henryson and prose writers like Margery Kempe showed subjectivity taking shape in the narrative interplay between symptoms and speech-acts, flesh and language. In narrating how actions and identities are determined by external causes, they produced accounts of the intricately “distributed” nature of human agency.