'Make-believe of a settlement': Nineteenth-Century Venice
12-13 July 2003, School of English, University of Leeds
Plenary speakers:
Professor John Dixon Hunt (Pennsylvania)
'The "ruined garden" of 19th-century Venice: fact & fiction'
and
Professor Robert Hewison (London), 'Ruskin, San Marco, and the
Protestant Beholder'.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Abstracts are invited (no more than 300 words) for papers of 20
minutes for this interdisciplinary conference on Nineteenth-Century
Venice. Papers may address any aspect of the city's life, including
the cultural, political, social, architectural, economic, musical,
artistic, literary, sexual, horticultural, or material. Papers on
imaginative constructions of Venice and on individual figures
including Grant Allen, Rawdon Brown, Robert Browning, Byron, Gautier,
Augustus Hare, Henry James, Vernon Lee, Margaret Oliphant, Ruskin,
Verdi, Wagner are also welcome. All papers should be delivered in
English.
Abstracts, snail mail or email, should be sent, by 28 February 2003,
to: Dr Francis O'Gorman The School of English University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK Email: [log in to unmask] Website:
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/Venice.html
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Dr Francis O'Gorman
School of English
University of Leeds,
Leeds, LS2 9JT
Tel. 0113 343 4798
Fax. 0113 343 4774
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/pages/o%27gorman.html
CONFERENCE 12-13 July 2003
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/Venice.html
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