Problematics of European literary history, 1559-1648

Warren Boutcher is editing the follow-up to David Wallace's Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418, focusing on the period 1559-1648, and he is visiting York to talk about the project, its methodology, and its themes. One of the main challenges facing this project is how to construct a holistic account of this period of European literary history - including its emergent global connections - of a kind that is not simply built from pre-determined blocks of (western) European national literatures.