'A Certain Imaginary Conjunction': Law, medicine and 'libertinage'

CREMS Seminar

Wes Williams

University Lecturer and Director of Graduate Studies in Modern Languages
Fellow and Tutor in French, St Edmund Hall, Oxford

Research Interests

Wes Williams' main research interests are in the field of Renaissance and/or early modern literature; he has written a book on pilgrimage writing, and continues to explore travel narratives of various kinds across the period. He is now writing a book on monsters and their meanings from, roughly, Rabelais to Racine (by way of Shakespeare, Montaigne and a few others). He also works on European film, and in the theatre as a writer and director.

Publications

''Being in the Middle': Translation, Transition and the 'Early Modern'', Paragraph, 29; 1 (2006), 27-39

'''Out of the frying pan ...': Curiosity, danger, and the poetics of witness in the Renaissance traveller’s tale', in: Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, eds. Robert Evans and Alex Marr (Ashgate, 2007)

'D'un ami l’autre: la figure du compagnon chez les pèlerins de Jérusalem', "Le voyage en Europe à la Renaissance" Romanic Review, 94:1-2 (2003), 93-114

'For your eyes only: Corneille’s view of Andromeda', Classical Philology [special number on Ekphrasis], 102; 1 (2007), 110-123

Pilgrimage and Narrative in the French Renaissance: 'The Undiscovered Country' , Clarendon Press (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1999)

'Strange Fruit: The Culture of Pilgrimage from Mandeville to the Missionaries', in: Forms of the Medieval in the Renaissance: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of a Cultural Continuum (EMF: Charlottesville, 2000), 205-224

'Rubbing up against Others: Montaigne on pilgrimage', in: Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel (Reaktion: London, ), 101-123.

Refreshments available 15 minutes before the start