CFP: “Locating Revolution,” Aberystwyth, July 2012

Call for Papers - Deadline Extended to 16th March

Locating Revolution: Place, Voice, Community 1780–1820

Aberystwyth 9–12 July 2012

A conference jointly hosted by the Wales and the French Revolution Project at the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies; the Centre for Romantic Studies, Aberystwyth University; and the Department of English, Swansea University.

This conference explores the relation between geography (considered as place, landscape, cartography and real and imagined space) and change during the period of the revolutionary wars. In what local, localised forms did the European upheavals of the age manifest themselves? How were social, religious and political loyalties conditioned by particular landscapes and environments? What were the coordinates of loyalism and opposition in particular rural, regional, urban and metropolitan communities? The conference seeks to place ‘history’ in specific locations, mapping connections across Europe, the Atlantic, and the wider world. It also sets out to consider the dramatic material forms that Romanticism, revolution and reaction took at this time. Delegates are invited to consider a range of cultural productions, material objects and literary forms with a view to revealing how the multiform phenomenon we term ‘Romanticism’ was experienced on the ground and in precise cultural locations.

Abstracts for 25-minute papers, and suggestions for panels, should be sent by 16th March 2012 to Angharad Elias (a.elias@wales.ac.uk). Panels on the following are particularly welcome:

• local/regional/national/European identities

• readings of ‘place’ and ‘space’

• cartographies of loyalism and opposition

• four Nations criticism: refining the ‘British’ response

• neglected /silenced voices

• oral traditions

More information available at: http://frenchrevolution.wales.ac.uk

CFP: “Victorian Mixed Media,” Victorians Institute, VCU, October 2012

Victorian Mixed Media

The 41st Meeting of the Victorians Institute
19-21 October 2012
at
Virginia Commonwealth University

Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. via email to dlatane@vcu.edu by 1 May 2012. Papers are invited on any aspect of the rubric, including

arts & crafts – the media of the empire – theatre — ekphrasis– the exhibition as medium – illustration and text (extra-illustrated volumes – giftbooks) — hybridity and language — map and mapping – media and genre — medium specificity in the 19th-century — new (digital) media and the Victorians — photography and its relationship to traditional media — poetry of the daily press — the print trade — show and tell (dioramas, panoramas, history, literature) — Victorian new media (typewriting – film) – sound and music – information systems – periodicals, pamphlets, broadsides – representation of media in fiction and poetry, etc.

Because 2012 marks the bicentennial of Robert Browning’s birth, papers which consider his work are especially welcome, whether or not they conform closely to the topic, as a portion of the program will commemorate the occasion.

Keynote address by W. J. T. Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago, is editor of Critical Inquiry and his books include “What Do Pictures Want?,” “Art and the Public Sphere,” “Iconology,” and “Blake’s Composite Art.”

Plenary talk to commemorate the bicentennial of the birth of Robert Browning by Herbert Tucker, John C. Coleman Professor of English at the University of Virginia; his books include “Epic: Britain’s Heroic Muse, 1790-1910,” “Tennyson and the Doom of Romantcism,” and “Browning’s Beginnings: The Art of Disclosure.”

Selected papers from the conference will be refereed for the “Victorians Institute Journal” annex at NINES.

Limited travel subventions will be available from the Victorians Institute for graduate students whose institutions provide limited or no support.

Please visit www.vcu.edu/vij for information about the conference, the Victorians Institute, and “Victorians Institute Journal.”

“Victorian Mixed Media” is sponsored at Virginia Commonwealth University by the College of Humanities and Sciences, Department of English, and the PhD program in Media, Art and Text (MATX).

David Latané, conference organizer.

Advisory committee: Nicholas Frankel, Catherine Ingrassia, John Picker (English); Eric Garberson, Catherine Roach (Art History); Nicholas Wolf (History).

Studies in Romanticism 50.3 (Fall 2011) available

Here are the articles and reviews from the latest issue of Studies in Romanticism (50.3, Fall 2011).

1.

Psyche’s ”Whisp’ring Fan” and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular  Author: John Savarese

p. 389-411

2.

Attraction and Combination: The Science of Metamorphosis in Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam  Author: Barbara Estermann

p. 413-36

3.

Charlotte Smith’s Poetry as Sentimental Discourse Author: Erinç Özdemir

p. 437-73

4.

“When Despotism kept genius in chains”: Imagining Tasso’s Madness and Imprisonment, 1748-1849  Author: Jason Lawrence

p. 475-503

5.

Never Getting Home: The Unfulfilled Promise of Maria Edgeworth’s The Absentee  Author: Spencer Jackson

p. 505-29

6.

Review of Clifford Siskin and William Warner, eds.: This Is Enlightenment Authors: Alan Bewell, Jon Klancher, Christina Lupton, and Ted Underwood

p. 531-43

7.

Review of Samuel Baker, Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture Author: Evan Gottlieb

p. 543-7

8.

Review of Michael Ragussis, Theatrical Nation: Jews and Other Outlandish Englishmen in Georgian Britain Author: Michael Scrivener

p. 548-53

9.

Review of Andrew Elfenbein, Romanticism and the Rise of English Author: Eugene Green

p. 553-62

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