CALL FOR PAPERS
JOHN KEBLE IN CONTEXT
Keble College, Oxford, UK
Saturday 10 May 2003
John Keble was one of the major figures of the early – mid-nineteenth
century, exerting influence across the disciplines of literature,
religion, poetics and politics through his work with the Oxford Movement,
his popular poetry, particularly the bestselling Christian Year, his
lectures on poetics, and - in his lifetime and beyond - through his status
as model clergyman and saintly Anglican. This one-day conference seeks to
re-evaluate Keble’s writings, his life and his afterlife in the wider
contexts of nineteenth-century literature and culture, and to assess his
significance for nineteenth-century studies today.
Topics for papers might include (but are not restricted to):
- Keble’s influence on his contemporaries and on later writers (including,
for example, Newman, Faber, Pusey, Isaac Williams, Yonge, Tennyson,
Christina Rossetti, Hopkins).
- Religious ideals and achievements: the effect of Keble’s theory and
practice on the Anglican church.
- Romantic poetry and the formulation of Keble’s poetics.
- Religious verse; the nineteenth-century hymn.
- Keble and nature poetry.
- The affective uses of Keble’s poems and letters.
- Children’s verse and Lyra Innocentium.
- The Christian Year as Victorian bestseller.
- Keble and the role of the clergyman in nineteenth-century Britain.
- The creation of Keble’s image: the function of paintings, biographies
and memoirs, memorials, and the foundation of Keble College.
Expressions of interest, queries and paper proposals, in the form of
one-page abstracts, should be sent to Kirstie Blair, Keble College, Oxford
OX1 3PG ([log in to unmask]) by 1 January 2003.
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