"Romanticism, Nature, and Identity"
2001 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
(ASLE)conference,
"Making a Start out of Particulars," June 19-23, at Northern Arizona
University in Flagstaff, AZ
Scott Hess, Boston College
I am hoping to put together a panel or roundtable discussion on the
relationship between representations of "nature," or the non-human
environment, and constructions of individual, social, and/or national
identity. "Romanticism" should be understood as broadly defined, including
potentially a specific historical period, a cultural and aesthetic movement
in
various countries and literatures, and/or a continuing sensibility.
Topics,
in relation to representations of the non-human landscape, flora, and
fauna,
might include:
--constructions of individual identity or "self"
--constructions of social or national identity
--constructions of authorial identity, related for instance to
professionalization or changing author-to-audience relationships
--constructions of gender or race, in relation to issues of identity
--related arts and social practices, such as landscape painting, sketching,
travel, guidebook publication, landscape tourism, estate management,
enclosure, agricultural practices, etc.
--related developments in the sciences, such as geology, chemistry, etc.;
or
relations to current scientific discourses
--developments in related discourses and genres, such as pastoral, the
sublime, the picturesque, etc., and their relevance for constructions of
identity
Please send a brief abstract or proposal of 1-2 pages maximum to my email
address at [log in to unmask] I especially encourage proposals which explore
the
relationship between Romantic representations of "nature" and current
environmental representations, practices, and issues.
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