Thinking about progress 1800-1850
Thursday10-Saturday12 April 2003, Senate House, University of London, UK
Keynote speakers:
Professor Isobel Armstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Professor Peter Bowler (Queens University, Belfast)
Professor James Chandler (University of Chicago)
Professor Annie Janowitz (QMW, University of London)
What did people think about progress in the years 1800-1850? Did they
conceive of the changes happening in their world as improvement or
decline; did they see themselves as moving forward, or were they looking
back? Did they see themselves at the start of a new age of technological
improvement and social reform, or did they view the huge changes taking
place around them as a threat to tradition?
The great age of progress is often regarded as the period after the
Great Exhibition, but the decades before this saw a ferment of
innovative developments in fields ranging from industry to music. We
invite papers from across disciplines on aspects of early
nineteenth-century progressivism, representations of progress and
reactions to progress.
We invite papers on aspects of progress, including, but not limited to:
Visions of progress
European thinking on progress and its influence in Britain
Is time linear or circular?
Fictions of progress
Reactions against progress
New inventions
The improvement of Man
The progress of the sciences
Reform movements
Conservation
The forward march of history
Revolutions
New movements in music
Proponents of the new
Popular protests against progress
The Poor Law
The progress of Empire
Spectacles of progress
Female progressives
Metaphors of progress
Pessimism Nostalgia
Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent by 1 September 2002
to:
Nicola Bown, School of English and Humanities, Birkbeck College, Malet
Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK. e-mail: [log in to unmask]
David Clifford, Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2PH. e-mail:
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E-mail submission is preferred, but no attachments please.
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Nicola Bown
Birkbeck College
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