The due date for the following cfp has been extended to October 11.
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In a recent article entitled "A Transatlantic Century," William Keach
argues
that "the grounds on which we claim the continuing relevance and coherence
of a 'romantic century' need to be transatlantic" (European Romantic Review
11 [Winter 2000]: 31). The necessity for an Anglo-American perspective on
Romanticism is further elucidated by Richard Gravil in his book Romantic
Dialogues (Macmillan/St. Martin's, 2000):
Any study of Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman, or Dickinson,
that contents itself with a passing nod to English Romanticism...is both
misleading and self deluding. Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and
Keats, shifted the English literary frontier too profoundly for that.
Equally, however, any study of English Romanticism that ignores the
centrality of 'America' to romanticism's self definition...is offering a
bowdlerized literary history. (p. xx)
For a colloquium at the American Comparative Literature Association
meeting,
we seek papers that address transatlantic crossings and connections during
Keach's proposed long Romantic century (1750-1865).
This colloquium will consist of a series of several panels. We welcome all
approaches and topics in this area including, but not limited to, the
following:
--the Romanticism of the American Renaissance and its concomitant anxiety
of
British influence
--the cultural history of what Paul Gilroy has termed the "Black Atlantic"
--Romantic transvaluations of nature
--transformations of individual and national identity during transatlantic
crossings
--the reception history of the hundreds of thousands of "pirated" American
editions of British Romantics
--Transatlantic Women's Rights & Writing
--Romanticism and Empire: the postcolonial transatlantic
--British and American representation of Native Americans and Native voices
--Industrialization, Class Conflict, Utopianism and the transatlantic
--Queer Romanticism and sexuality in works on either side of the Atlantic
--comparative approaches treating Romanticism in Ireland, Europe and the
Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, South America)
ACLA 2003 will be held at Cal State San Marcos in North San Diego County,
April 4-6, 2003. In keeping with San Diego's prominence as a global
crossroads for language, culture, and economic exchange, the theme of this
year's meeting is "Crossing Over" and the meeting will focus on the
condition and process of crossing as a form of mobility, transition,
transformation, experience, or exchange. Interpretations of this theme
include, but are not limited to: borders and boundaries, technologies of
reproduction, identity politics, disciplinarity and representation. For
more
information please see the ACLA call for papers. The ACLA conference is a
multi-disciplinary gathering that last year included over 600 participants
from 27 countries. Papers and seminars from across the humanities and
sciences are welcome for consideration.
Please submit a 1-2 page abstract and a cv to:
Lance Newman
Literature and Writing Studies
CSUSM
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road
San Marcos, CA 92024-0001
Email proposals to [log in to unmask]
Fax: 760-750-4111
Panel Organizers:
Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Wilfrid Laurier University
Lance Newman, California State University, San Marcos
Joel Pace, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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