Beyond Truth: Fiction and (Dis)information in the Early Modern World
Organisers: Thomas Goodwin, Luca Zenobi, Emma Claussen Keynote speakers: Emily Butterworth (King’s College, London) & Alejandra Dubcovsky (University of California, Riverside)‘Fake news’ is nothing new. Early modern scholarship has long since done away with the idea that the invention of print led to an unambiguously positive revolution in the circulation of information. Attention has been drawn to the way the press – along with improvements in transport, roads and postal services – facilit…
Oxford (17-18 September 2018), avant le 20 avril 2018