REMINDER: UPCOMING DEADLINE
BARS Biennial Conference: Romantic Conflict
24-27 July 2003
University of Warwick
Plenary Speakers: David Bromwich, Saree Makdisi, Carolyn Steedman,
Susan Wolfson
The overall aim of the conference is to investigate sites of social,
political and interpersonal conflict and their relationship to
Romantic writing. Conflict may be taken literally (i.e. Revolution,
war, rebellion, treason*) or figuratively (i.e. the clash of genres,
the battle of the sexes, the dissolution of friendships*).
General themes of the conference might include: the different ways
Romantic writers construct conflict; the range of attitudes towards
conflict, including incitement, justification, complaint, pacifism,
avoidance, denial; and the ways in which the study of Romanticism
depends upon notions of conflict and discord. Is 'Romanticism' itself
a site of conflict? Is resolution possible or is the struggle always
already lost? The conference will also be an opportunity to test the
viability of Romantic models for peace and reconciliation.
Some of the specific topics to be addressed are:
· war and the justification for war
· exploration, adventure, travel ('culture clash')
· class conflict, revolution
· ideologies
· religious differences
· ecological conflict
· gender conflict ('battle of the sexes')
· friends and enemies
· literary and political rivalry
· competition
· utopias
· antagonism between writers and reviewers
· conflicts between modes of discourse - literature, philosophy,
history; poetry vs. prose
· radical aesthetics
· literary / cultural criticism as conflict
· Romanticism and Modernism
· Romantic studies as itself a site of conflict
Please send abstracts of c.300 words to Jacqueline Labbe, Department
of English and Comp.Lit. Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4
7AL; [log in to unmask] (attachments in rtf preferred). We also
welcome proposals for panels; please include abstracts for all
speakers.
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