‘Making a Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment 1820-1840’
The next three instalments of this British Academy series are as follows:
Dr John Gardner (Anglia Ruskin) on 'Radicalism after Peterloo'
Friday 19 April, 5-7pm, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Literary & Philosophical Society
Dr Gregory Dart (UCL) on early Dickens
Friday 24 May, 5-7pm, Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham University
Prof John Plotz (Brandeis) on short narrative forms
Monday 10 June, 5-7pm, Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham University
The events are free to attend. All are welcome. Queries to either Dr Peter Garratt (Durham) or Dr David Stewart (Northumbria).
Friday, 12 April 2013
'Cultivating Comunity?' public engagement project call for participants
Cultivating Community? A Case Study of Lord Armstrong and the Victorian North East
Applications are sought for an AHRC-funded public engagement training project
What is 'public engagement'? What importance might public engagement projects have for the local community or the region? How can we create research with partners outside academia? How can we ensure that the knowledge generated is genuinely meaningful to the public we seek to reach out to? What can we do to ensure public engagement initiates two-way conversations that enhance our research as well as deepening public understanding and interest? This AHRC-funded project seeks to address these questions and more through offering postgraduate participants a comprehensive training programme and the opportunity to design, plan and run a public exhibition exploring local industrialist Lord Armstrong's role as a philanthropist and civic figure in the North East.
Engaging with the wider community opens up exciting opportunities to acquire and share skills, and to create innovative new research. This training project will provide postgraduate students with a programme of workshops, field trips and practical experience, with the twin aims of encouraging participants to think about how to make public engagement as meaningful as possible for both researchers and the public, and providing a 'tool-kit' of useful information and ideas. By the project's end, participants will have successfully undertaken local archival research for the purpose of staging a public exhibition and documented their experiences and thoughts on the project blog, which will then remain as an online resource.
Participation is free and involves:
- Two full-day training workshops to be held on 20 May and 3 June (refreshments and lunch included). These will be open to all and will feature panels comprising representatives from Newcastle and Durham universities in dialogue with a wide range of local culture and heritage institutions, including The Laing Gallery, Durham World Heritage Site, Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums, Great North Museum: Hancock, TUSK music, and Durham Palace Green Library, with more to be confirmed
- A full-day field trip and behind-the-scenes tour to Cragside, Lord Armstrong's family home
- Two catered half-day exhibition planning meetings (late May and mid-June)
- Independent research at the archive or institution of your choice
- Curation of material for the public exhibition (opening in late July), which will be launched with a wine reception for all participants and partners
Up to twelve participants will be selected. The successful applicants must be able to commit to attend the workshops, planning meetings and field trip, as well as undertaking approximately 10 hours of independent work on their contribution to the exhibition and the project blog. Travel to and from the workshops will be subsidised.
How to apply:
Applicants must be current postgraduate students working at either Master’s or PhD level. We will also consider applications from people who will be commencing a postgraduate degree in the 2013/2014 academic year.
Please send a one-page document to the organisers detailing:
- Name and institutional affiliation
- Degree programme and discipline
- Thesis title and year (PhD students only)
- A statement of up to 400 words, detailing why you would like to be considered, and how this programme would benefit your academic development
Applications should be sent to nicole.bush@durham.ac.uk, b.turner@newcastle.ac.uk, and k.a.katigbak@durham.ac.uk by 5pm on 13 May 2013.
For more information, please email the organisers or visit the website: http://peopleandplace2013.blogspot.co.uk
Saturday, 6 April 2013
Reading Group Report: Imagining Germany: A Journey from Folk Revival to Gothic Horror in Translation
Led by
Jayne Winter (Newcastle University)
28 March 2013
28 March 2013
Percy
Building Postgraduate Common Room, Newcastle University
Departing from our usual focus upon long nineteenth-century English literature, the subject of this month’s reading group was the effects of translation upon the folk ballad tradition in England, Scotland and Germany. Exploring the ways in which oral culture became appropriated by different nationalities and crucially, different languages, this session was valuable in terms of its questioning approach to ideas of literary heritage. Concentrating upon texts by the English Thomas Percy, William Wordsworth and Matthew Lewis, the Scottish Walter Scott, and the German Johann Gottfried Herder and Gottfried August Bürger, the session sought to investigate not only the challenges posed by issues of translation, but also what translation itself lends to the concept of the folk tale.
Beginning by focusing upon Herder’s translation of Percy’s poem ‘Sweet William’s Ghost’ (1773), we considered the former’s awareness that this is a manufactured myth, borrowed from English oral tradition in order to be incorporated into German folk culture. As an admirer of the Ossian correspondences, we discussed how Herder was attracted to this idea of an ancient bardic culture and regarded it as desirable for establishing such a culture in Germany. It was suggested that, as Germany during this period was fragmented both politically and culturally, Herder’s preoccupation with oral traditions perhaps reflects this desire for a stable national history. Parallels were also drawn with eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Italy, as an example of a nation that was displaced linguistically, as well as politically.
Those of us who were German speakers remarked upon the language Herder uses in his translation of ‘Sweet William’. It was suggested that, rather than reproducing Percy’s poem faithfully, Herder deliberately incorporates vocabulary that makes its themes more archaic in translation. This implies that he is not only amalgamating an English ballad into German culture, but in turn, transforming it in order to appeal to the Gothic sensibilities of that culture. Through this process, it was suggested that Herder may be seen as contributing to the reputation German literature would acquire in England; the home of horror stories and Gothic narratives. Interestingly, it was pointed out that it was England, and Scotland in particular, that held this reputation for Gothic literature in the eighteenth-century German psyche.
Moving on to look at the other texts, we were introduced to the demand for this kind of translated Gothic-esque literature in the eighteenth century. For example, Bürger also copied material from Percy’s poems into his Gothic romance ‘Lenore’ (1789), which was then itself swiftly translated back into English by Walter Scott. Furthermore, Wordsworth made elements of ‘Lenore’ famous in the folk traditions and narrative of several of The Lyrical Ballads (1798/1802), whilst Matthew Lewis appropriated ‘Lenore’ into poems that were proclaimed to be based upon the Germanic tradition.
We wondered what effect this act of translation from English/Scots dialect to German, and then back again, had on the original poems. Certainly, Herder’s view on the purpose of poetry was not merely to convince his readers of their ancientness, but also to inspire a new kind of thinking about German culture and the function of literature within it. Members were interested in Herder’s concept of history, which was seen to share many parallels with that of the Scottish Enlightenment. Like philosophers such as Adam Ferguson, and later writers such as Thomas Love Peacock, Herder regarded history to be split into distinct ‘stages’, in which poetry must be aligned with particular points in national development. It was suggested that such an approach contradicted that of other Scottish contemporaries such as Dugald Stewart, who perceived poetry and historical development as having a more dynamic relationship. Nevertheless, this insight into Herder’s views reflected the wider relevance of his ideas on poetry, translation and national identity. It also inspired detailed discussions on the affinities between German and Scottish literature during this period.
Overall, this session was valuable for the way that it highlighted the importance of translation and its place in national consciousness during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It also introduced our mainly English literature-focused members to ideas that were both prevalent in European thought, and that share parallels with contemporary views of poetry and its purpose in England. The NENC organising committee would thus like to thank Jayne for a thought-provoking, lively and interesting session.
Leanne
Stokoe, Newcastle University
Wednesday, 3 April 2013
Reading Group Report: 'Notes on Form in Art’: Composing Character
Led by Nicole Bush (Durham University)
22 February 2013
St. Chad’s College, Durham University
22 February 2013
St. Chad’s College, Durham University
The February reading group saw NENC holding another successful
event at Durham University. The purpose
of this session was to explore George
Eliot’s essay ‘Notes on Form in Art’ (1868), which discussed the composition,
transferrence and presentation of artistic creation. We then related these ideas to critical views
on art in an essay by David Trotter, and sought to apply them by looking
closely at the transformation of J.M.W. Turner’s paintings into black and white
engravings.
We began the session by considering Eliot’s meaning of the term ‘form’ in relation to artistic production. She connects the concept of form as an object with determining rules to the inspiration of the artist, poet or writer. As a result, the construction of artistic conventions must always derive from original insight on the part of their creator, whilst new kinds of inspiration necessarily relate to concepts that have already been established. We considered how this relates to Trotter’s view that for Eliot, poetic form in particular was not viewed as inhibiting artistic creation, but operated rather as a framework through which new ideas and types of metre could be established.
Eliot’s distinctive view of form was then related to other areas of nineteenth-century literature in which members could identify similar views of artistic creation. In particular, the outlook of several Romantic-era writers was recalled, which implies that Eliot’s notable admiration for Wordsworth also extended to other figures of the era. For example, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s theory of the primary and secondary imaginations in his Biographia Literaria (1817) was mentioned. It was suggested that parallels can arguably be drawn between Eliot’s concept of form as both inspiring the artist and producing conventions through which his work could be expressed, and Coleridge’s belief that the metre and imagery of poets are reflective of a higher inspirational source.
Another prominent Romantic outlook to share some parallels with Eliot’s view is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s theory of poetic composition in his A Defence of Poetry (1821). Like Eliot, Shelley conceived of artistic convention in metre, style and ideas as being a beneficial ‘form’, which in turn could inspire more original insights on the part of contemporary and future poets. Furthermore, Shelley believed that this creative version of ‘form’ in the arts could also be observed within politics, economics and the sciences. This provoked some interesting discussion on how concepts of fixidity and form are associated usually with the sciences in the modern era, as opposed to this more interdisciplinary approach favoured by Eliot and others.
Moving from Eliot’s theory of ‘forms’ in art to a consideration of how these ideas can be observed in practice, we looked closely at Turner’s paintings. Their transformation into engravings divested them of colour, yet arguably enhanced their level of detail. We were particularly impressed by one theme of Turner’s in which the vivid sunset tones in the painting became, in the process of an engraving, a more striking portrayal of the shift between twilight and evening. Relating this to Eliot’s theories, we considered that the transition in mediums did not so much deprive Turner’s original painting of its vivacity, but added to it a different level of artistic insight. In this respect, the engraving cannot merely be seen as an imitation of Turner’s masterpiece, but as enhancing the subjects in a way that could not have been possible in the original medium. As a result, we were fascinated by the potential of Eliot’s theory of form to be applied to different kinds of artistic production.
We began the session by considering Eliot’s meaning of the term ‘form’ in relation to artistic production. She connects the concept of form as an object with determining rules to the inspiration of the artist, poet or writer. As a result, the construction of artistic conventions must always derive from original insight on the part of their creator, whilst new kinds of inspiration necessarily relate to concepts that have already been established. We considered how this relates to Trotter’s view that for Eliot, poetic form in particular was not viewed as inhibiting artistic creation, but operated rather as a framework through which new ideas and types of metre could be established.
Eliot’s distinctive view of form was then related to other areas of nineteenth-century literature in which members could identify similar views of artistic creation. In particular, the outlook of several Romantic-era writers was recalled, which implies that Eliot’s notable admiration for Wordsworth also extended to other figures of the era. For example, Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s theory of the primary and secondary imaginations in his Biographia Literaria (1817) was mentioned. It was suggested that parallels can arguably be drawn between Eliot’s concept of form as both inspiring the artist and producing conventions through which his work could be expressed, and Coleridge’s belief that the metre and imagery of poets are reflective of a higher inspirational source.
Another prominent Romantic outlook to share some parallels with Eliot’s view is Percy Bysshe Shelley’s theory of poetic composition in his A Defence of Poetry (1821). Like Eliot, Shelley conceived of artistic convention in metre, style and ideas as being a beneficial ‘form’, which in turn could inspire more original insights on the part of contemporary and future poets. Furthermore, Shelley believed that this creative version of ‘form’ in the arts could also be observed within politics, economics and the sciences. This provoked some interesting discussion on how concepts of fixidity and form are associated usually with the sciences in the modern era, as opposed to this more interdisciplinary approach favoured by Eliot and others.
Moving from Eliot’s theory of ‘forms’ in art to a consideration of how these ideas can be observed in practice, we looked closely at Turner’s paintings. Their transformation into engravings divested them of colour, yet arguably enhanced their level of detail. We were particularly impressed by one theme of Turner’s in which the vivid sunset tones in the painting became, in the process of an engraving, a more striking portrayal of the shift between twilight and evening. Relating this to Eliot’s theories, we considered that the transition in mediums did not so much deprive Turner’s original painting of its vivacity, but added to it a different level of artistic insight. In this respect, the engraving cannot merely be seen as an imitation of Turner’s masterpiece, but as enhancing the subjects in a way that could not have been possible in the original medium. As a result, we were fascinated by the potential of Eliot’s theory of form to be applied to different kinds of artistic production.
Extending our earlier conversation on the limitations of a form of art, we concluded the session by considering whether Eliot’s theory could be applied to disciplines outside modern-day concepts of ‘art’. In particular, we thought about whether Eliot’s ideas anticipated present-day aims in literary studies to explore the relationship between aesthetic and scientific modes of thought. It was suggested that this notion of ‘form’ as being both fixed and inspirational could be seen to not only enlarge literary scholarship, but also question further the notion of ‘two cultures’ in the arts and sciences.
Leanne Stokoe, Newcastle University
Monday, 11 February 2013
‘The 1820s: An Improvisational and Speculative Moment’: Angela Esterhammer at Durham
‘Making a Darkness Visible: The Literary Moment 1820-1840’ is a British Academy-funded seminar series which investigates the literature and culture of a period that has traditionally fallen between the ‘Romanticism’ and ‘Victorianism’. The second event, on the 22nd of February, is a seminar with Professor Angela Esterhammer (Toronto) titled ‘The 1820s: An Improvisational and Speculative Moment’. Professor Esterhammer will lead the discussion, with responses from Dr Michael Rossington (Newcastle) and Dr Pete Newbon (Northumbria).
The seminar will begin at 5pm, in the Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham. The event is free to attend and all are welcome. Queries to either Dr Peter Garratt (Durham) or Dr David Stewart (Northumbria).
Please note that the NENC reading group session for February will also take place in Durham on the same afternoon, and has been timed to allow members to attend both events.
The seminar will begin at 5pm, in the Birley Room, Hatfield College, Durham. The event is free to attend and all are welcome. Queries to either Dr Peter Garratt (Durham) or Dr David Stewart (Northumbria).
Please note that the NENC reading group session for February will also take place in Durham on the same afternoon, and has been timed to allow members to attend both events.
Friday, 8 February 2013
Calls for papers: a weekly round-up
NAVSA 2013 Panel "Finding the Hidden Adult in Victorian Children's Literature"
October 23-27, 2013, Pasadena, CA
The Victorian era embraced the notion that childhood should be set aside as a time of unbridled play and fantasy, separate from the adult world of work. Yet the worlds of childhood and adulthood were constantly blurring within and alongside books for both kinds of audiences: Catherine Robson notes the presence of men in Wonderland, and Claudia Nelson has recently shown that "precocious children" and "childish adults" populate Victorian literature.
In keeping with the "Evidence" theme of the NAVSA 2013 conference, this panel seeks presentations that search for evidence of the adult inhabiting the child's world or the child within the adult. Papers might consider child writers imitating adult-authored literature; adults writing for children or mimicking the child's voice; adult/child collaborations; case studies of texts that resist age-based audience conventions; and other instances of this boundary-crossing in the Victorian era, as well as the influence of personal history on literary production. Projects concerned with the exchange between different media forms-e.g., text and image; periodicals and bound volumes; "high" culture genres and "low"-are particularly welcome.
Please submit 500 word paper abstracts along with a one-page c.v. to A. Robin Hoffman and Meghan Rosing by 22 February 2013.
MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities
Chicago, 9-12 January 2014
The Victorian Division seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Informatics.
What were the properties of information in the Victorian period? Was there a Victorian culture of information? How did Victorians, amass, manage, propagate information? How did ideologies and economies of information shape forms of cultural expression—and vice versa?
Topics might include:
-Producing, organizing, or circulating knowledge
-Information taxonomies and technologies
-Economies and ecologies of information
-Narrating information
-The poetics or aesthetics of information
-Wanting facts—or having too much information
500-word abstracts and brief cvs to Richard Menke by 1 March 2013.
**********
The Victorian Division also seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Temporalities.
What distinguished the experience of time in the period, or the Victorian temporal imagination? How did the Victorians make sense of simultaneity; of different time scales; of discontinuity or mistiming?
Topics might include:
-Instantaneity
-Lived time, realtime
-Geological time or deep time
-Duration
-Synchrony and asynchrony
-Intermittence
-Spending, saving, or wasting time
500-word abstracts and brief cvs to Richard Menke by 1 March 2013.
Romantic Adaptation: Wordsworth-Coleridge Association MLA session
Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, 9-12 January, 2014
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association invites proposals for its sessions at the 2014 MLA.
Essays should examine the purposes and techniques of textual adaptation in British Romantic literature, including translation, revision, retraction, bricolage, plagiarism, parody, forgery, hoax, lampoon, and caricature.
Abstracts (circa 250-300 words) are due by 15 March 2013 to James McKusick.
In addition to your abstract, please provide a biographical statement (circa 250-300 words), written in the third person, stating your name, job title, affiliation, final degree institution and date, and information on your scholarly publications. Particularly relevant is scholarship that directly relates to the proposed session topic(s). In order to “pitch” our sessions effectively to the MLA, please include some persuasive talking points about the importance, significance, and contribution of your work to the profession, with special attention to any work you've done that relates to the session topic. Please explain why you are the ideal person to present on this topic.
Romantic Origins Conference
Univeristy of Sheffield, 5 April 2013
The AHRC-sponsored Romantic Heirs research network is pleased to announce the date of its inaugural conference on the theme of Romantic origins. The conference, to be held at the University of Sheffield on 5 April 2013, is free to attend and includes lunchtime refreshments (gratis) and a post-conference dinner. The day’s events include:
-a plenary paper by Dr Madeleine Callaghan, lecturer at the University of Sheffield and assistant editor of The Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies (2012);
-roundtable discussions on the origins of Romanticism;
-a talk on the emerging use of digital platforms in the Arts and Humanities with an invitation to publish your own work on the network’s website; and
-an opportunity to get involved in the development of the network’s future activities.
The conference organisers especially welcome postgraduate and early-career researchers to submit proposals of 250 words for short position papers of approx. 1500 words. These short papers will be read in advance by attendees and then discussed in roundtable sessions on the day of the conference. Topics for position papers may include:
-early Romanticism;
-interactions and dialogues with pre-Romantic writers, poets, artists and musicians and their
influence(s);
-historical and sociological themes on the emergence of Romanticism;
-placing the boundary between Enlightenment and Romantic cultural practices;
-pre-Romantic culture and its impact;
-Romanticism’s interactions with classicism and/or the ancient world.
Please submit and address all queries to romanticheirs@sheffield.ac.uk The deadline for proposal submission is 10 March 2013. Completed position papers should be submitted by 20 March 2013 so that they may be circulated among participants. More information about the Romantic Heirs network can be found here.
Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Transatlantic Studies Association annual conference
Northumbria University, Newcastle, 8-11 July 2013
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers approaching nineteenth-century literature from a perspective combining transatlantic and ecocritical scholarship. We are particularly interested in papers that open a dialogue between transatlantic literary history and/or transatlantic literary theory and any of the following topics in the environmental humanities: ecocritical theory; critical animal studies; environmental ethics; environmental justice; indigenous ecologies; colonial and postcolonial ecologies; gender and ecology; natural history, etc.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV by 30 April 2013, to Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia and John Miller, University of Sheffield.
October 23-27, 2013, Pasadena, CA
The Victorian era embraced the notion that childhood should be set aside as a time of unbridled play and fantasy, separate from the adult world of work. Yet the worlds of childhood and adulthood were constantly blurring within and alongside books for both kinds of audiences: Catherine Robson notes the presence of men in Wonderland, and Claudia Nelson has recently shown that "precocious children" and "childish adults" populate Victorian literature.
In keeping with the "Evidence" theme of the NAVSA 2013 conference, this panel seeks presentations that search for evidence of the adult inhabiting the child's world or the child within the adult. Papers might consider child writers imitating adult-authored literature; adults writing for children or mimicking the child's voice; adult/child collaborations; case studies of texts that resist age-based audience conventions; and other instances of this boundary-crossing in the Victorian era, as well as the influence of personal history on literary production. Projects concerned with the exchange between different media forms-e.g., text and image; periodicals and bound volumes; "high" culture genres and "low"-are particularly welcome.
Please submit 500 word paper abstracts along with a one-page c.v. to A. Robin Hoffman and Meghan Rosing by 22 February 2013.
MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities
Chicago, 9-12 January 2014
The Victorian Division seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Informatics.
What were the properties of information in the Victorian period? Was there a Victorian culture of information? How did Victorians, amass, manage, propagate information? How did ideologies and economies of information shape forms of cultural expression—and vice versa?
Topics might include:
-Producing, organizing, or circulating knowledge
-Information taxonomies and technologies
-Economies and ecologies of information
-Narrating information
-The poetics or aesthetics of information
-Wanting facts—or having too much information
500-word abstracts and brief cvs to Richard Menke by 1 March 2013.
**********
The Victorian Division also seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Temporalities.
What distinguished the experience of time in the period, or the Victorian temporal imagination? How did the Victorians make sense of simultaneity; of different time scales; of discontinuity or mistiming?
Topics might include:
-Instantaneity
-Lived time, realtime
-Geological time or deep time
-Duration
-Synchrony and asynchrony
-Intermittence
-Spending, saving, or wasting time
500-word abstracts and brief cvs to Richard Menke by 1 March 2013.
Romantic Adaptation: Wordsworth-Coleridge Association MLA session
Modern Language Association Convention in Chicago, 9-12 January, 2014
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association invites proposals for its sessions at the 2014 MLA.
Essays should examine the purposes and techniques of textual adaptation in British Romantic literature, including translation, revision, retraction, bricolage, plagiarism, parody, forgery, hoax, lampoon, and caricature.
Abstracts (circa 250-300 words) are due by 15 March 2013 to James McKusick.
In addition to your abstract, please provide a biographical statement (circa 250-300 words), written in the third person, stating your name, job title, affiliation, final degree institution and date, and information on your scholarly publications. Particularly relevant is scholarship that directly relates to the proposed session topic(s). In order to “pitch” our sessions effectively to the MLA, please include some persuasive talking points about the importance, significance, and contribution of your work to the profession, with special attention to any work you've done that relates to the session topic. Please explain why you are the ideal person to present on this topic.
Romantic Origins Conference
Univeristy of Sheffield, 5 April 2013
The AHRC-sponsored Romantic Heirs research network is pleased to announce the date of its inaugural conference on the theme of Romantic origins. The conference, to be held at the University of Sheffield on 5 April 2013, is free to attend and includes lunchtime refreshments (gratis) and a post-conference dinner. The day’s events include:
-a plenary paper by Dr Madeleine Callaghan, lecturer at the University of Sheffield and assistant editor of The Oxford Handbook of Shelley Studies (2012);
-roundtable discussions on the origins of Romanticism;
-a talk on the emerging use of digital platforms in the Arts and Humanities with an invitation to publish your own work on the network’s website; and
-an opportunity to get involved in the development of the network’s future activities.
The conference organisers especially welcome postgraduate and early-career researchers to submit proposals of 250 words for short position papers of approx. 1500 words. These short papers will be read in advance by attendees and then discussed in roundtable sessions on the day of the conference. Topics for position papers may include:
-early Romanticism;
-interactions and dialogues with pre-Romantic writers, poets, artists and musicians and their
influence(s);
-historical and sociological themes on the emergence of Romanticism;
-placing the boundary between Enlightenment and Romantic cultural practices;
-pre-Romantic culture and its impact;
-Romanticism’s interactions with classicism and/or the ancient world.
Please submit and address all queries to romanticheirs@sheffield.ac.uk The deadline for proposal submission is 10 March 2013. Completed position papers should be submitted by 20 March 2013 so that they may be circulated among participants. More information about the Romantic Heirs network can be found here.
Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Literary Ecologies: Transatlantic Studies Association annual conference
Northumbria University, Newcastle, 8-11 July 2013
We invite proposals for 20-minute papers approaching nineteenth-century literature from a perspective combining transatlantic and ecocritical scholarship. We are particularly interested in papers that open a dialogue between transatlantic literary history and/or transatlantic literary theory and any of the following topics in the environmental humanities: ecocritical theory; critical animal studies; environmental ethics; environmental justice; indigenous ecologies; colonial and postcolonial ecologies; gender and ecology; natural history, etc.
Please send a 300-word abstract and a brief CV by 30 April 2013, to Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia and John Miller, University of Sheffield.
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