Dear All
This is a message to inform you that the December 2001 issue of our
Romantic-studies online periodical, ‘Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic
Text’, is now available for viewing.
* ARTICLES:
1. ‘Assailing the Thing’: Politics of Space in William Cobbett’s Rural
Rides (Aruna Krishnamurthy, Lewis and Clark College): An analysis of the
interchange between radicalism, class-consciousness, and print culture in
William Cobbett’s Rural Rides.
2. Writing to Sir Walter: The Letters of Mary Bryan Bedingfield (Sharon
Ragaz, University of Toronto): A discussion of the intriguing
correspondence
between the little-known poet and novelist Mary Bryan Bedingfield and Sir
Walter Scott.
3. Tales of Other Times: A Survey of British Historical Fiction, 1770–1812
(Anne Stevens, New York University): An evaluation of the significance of
the historical tale before the arrival of Scott’s Waverley.
* BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REPORTS:
4. The Rise of the Tale: A Preliminary Checklist of Collections of Short
Fiction Published 1820–29 in the Corvey Collection (Tim Killick, Cardiff
University): A bibliographical checklist of nearly 150 collections of
shorter fiction published in Britain during the 1820s.
5. Dutch Translations of English Novels, 1770–1829 (Caspar Wintermans): A
survey of Dutch translations of English-language fiction published between
1770 and 1829.
* RESEARCH PROJECTS: Details of current developments in the second phase of
British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production and Reception History.
Also, information about our two-year pilot Bibliography of British Fiction,
1830–1836.
* FLOWERS OF LITERATURE FICTION REVIEWS: As a result of materials collected
for the database project we have transcribed all extant reviews of fiction
available in The Flowers of Literature, which was published during the
1810s. This document, which will be used as part of the library of reviews
included in the database, is freely available for download and use to
visitors.
You can visit Cardiff Corvey @ www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey
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* CALL FOR PAPERS:
The editors of ‘Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text’ [ISSN 1471-5988]
invite submissions to the online journal run by the Centre for Editorial
and
Intertextual Research (CEIR) at Cardiff University. Cardiff Corvey is a
refereed periodical devoted to the study of Romantic-era literature, with a
particular emphasis on fiction of the period 1770–1830. Articles concerned
with less well-known novelists and texts, publishing history relating to
this period, and bibliographical and editorial issues are especially
welcome.
Papers of 5,000–8,000 words can be submitted via e-mail (as attachments) or
on disk in any of the popular word-processing (e.g. MS Word, Wordperfect,
Word Pro, RTF) or HTML formats: for the preferred presentation of articles,
please consult the MHRA guidelines. We would appreciate if double-spaced
hard copy could also be supplied, although this is not necessary. Shorter
notices and bibliographical checklists of relevance will also be
considered.
We hope to publish in Issue 8 (June 2002) those articles submitted at the
latest by the end of April 2001.
Essays will be reviewed by members of the Advisory Board: Peter Garside
(Chair, Cardiff), Jane Aaron (Glamorgan), Stephen Behrendt (Nebraska), Emma
Clery (Sheffield Hallam), Caroline Franklin (Swansea), Isobel Grundy
(Alberta), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Claire Lamont (Newcastle), Robert Miles
(Stirling), Jill Rubenstein (Cincinnati), Rainer Schöwerling (Paderborn),
Christopher Skelton-Foord (British Library), Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford),
Michael Wheeler (Southampton).
Editor: Anthony Mandal.
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