CALL FOR PAPERS:
CROSSING POETRY AND THE NOVEL IN THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
I write to solicit papers for two North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism Panels at next year's conference of the Association of
Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE). The
conference will occur from May 28 to May 31, 2003 at Dalhousie University
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. I am happy to announce that the panel on
the "Poetry of Fiction" will have Jay Clayton as its respondent.
THE POETRY OF FICTION
This panel invites papers on the place of Romantic poetry in the fiction
of the Romantic and early-Victorian age. Following Jay Clayton's lead in
his _Romantic Vision and the Novel_ and recent explorations of
Romanticism's role in the rise of fiction and realism, this panel will
explore various ways that Romantic poetry had a measurable impact on the
novel. Possible topics include: the influence of Romantic ideas about
vision and transcendence on theories of verisimilitude; the role of
Romantic notions of subjectivity on the rise of subjective as opposed to
mimetic realism in the novel; representations of the Romantic poet or of
Romantic poetry in the novels of the period (Persuasion, Glenarvon,
Headlong Hall, Nightmare Abbey, Vivian Grey, Venetia, The Doctor's Wife,
Felix Holt, etc.). Please send papers or 2-3 page proposals by November 15
to Dino Felluga, Purdue University, Department of English, 500 Oval Drive,
West Lafayette, IN 47907. Electronic submissions should be sent as a
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NOVEL POETRY
This panel invites papers that explore the influence of narrative,
particularly of the novel, on the poetry of the Romantic period. Although
many Romantic poets defined themselves against "frantic novels and deluges
of idle and extravagant stories in verse," as Wordsworth has it, many
nonetheless felt the influence of increasingly popular and therefore
highly marketable narrative forms of literature. Possible topics include:
the role of narrative in Romantic poetry; the place of romance in
Romanticism; gothicism and Romantic poetry; the representation of the
novelist by Romantic poets and poet-critics; the Romantic roots of the
verse novel (for example, the Prelude as bildungsroman or kunstlerroman;
the Romantic metrical novel; Don Juan as proto- or anti-novel). Please
send papers or proposals by November 15 to Dino Felluga, Purdue
University, Department of English, 500 Oval Drive, West Lafayette, IN
47907. Electronic submissions should be sent as a Microsoft Word
attachment to [log in to unmask]
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