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ROMANTIC WALES:
LITERATURE, LANDSCAPE AND TRAVEL, 1740-1850
An interdisciplinary conference on Romantic explorations and appropriations
of Wales
7-9 September 2001, The University of Wales, Aberystwyth
PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent University); Peter Kitson (Dundee
University); Peter Lord (Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies,
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth)
The aim of the conference is to explore representations of Wales in the
Romantic and early Victorian periods. It will focus on appropriations of
Wales and the Welsh in literature, travel writing, historical writing, the
visual arts and aesthetic theory. Papers discussing Welsh writers are also
encouraged.
Proposals for papers are welcomed in any of the following areas: · The
Romantics in Wales: Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, De Quincey, Peacock,
Landor · The rediscovered country: tours and tourists · William Gilpin and
the Picturesque · Women writing Wales · Antiquarianism and the hunt for a
British past · Thomas Gray and the Bard · Local history and the history of
the Welsh · The eighteenth-century Welsh cultural renaissance · Richard
Wilson, Turner and representations of Wales in art · Wales and America:
transatlantic connections · Wales and the French Revolution: radicals and
reactionaries · The rise of Methodism: forging a nonconformist nation
Abstracts (approximately 250¾300 words) should be sent to either Dr Damian
Walford Davies (English Department, University of Wales, Hugh Owen
Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth, SY23 3DY; [log in to unmask]) or to Dr Robert
W. Jones (School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT;
[log in to unmask]) by 15 June 2001. Papers will be thirty minutes
long.
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