QUEER ROMANTICISMS -- A CALL FOR PAPERS
Richard Sha recently noted that for historians of
sexuality (transgressive and otherwise) the Romantic
period has often been seen as merely a "speedbump" on
their journey from the Renaissance to the Victorian
period. Yet the last couple of years has witnessed an
efflorescence of queer work in Romanticism from queer
Walter Scott at MLA to an award winning essay on queer
biography and Mary Diana Dods published in Romanticism
on the Net in 2001. We seek submissions for a
conference which takes a long overdue look at all
aspects of queer Romanticism which will be held in
Dublin, Ireland on Friday 15th and Saturday 16th
August 2003.
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Distinguished Plenary Speakers are:
Professor George E.Haggerty (University of California,
Riverside)
Professor Eric O. Clarke (University of Pittsburgh)
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Please note that selected essays (5000-8000 words in
MLA style to be submitted by 1 February 2004) will be
published in a special issue of Romanticism On The Net
(issue no.35) in August 2004.
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/mirrors/romnet/
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A number of topics which could be addressed are listed
below but proposals should certainly not be limited to
these concerns:
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*homosociality and collaboration
*effeminacy, refinement, and class
*queer narrators
*gossip and queer sociability
*monstrosity and unspeakable sexuality
*queer aesthetics
*queering the sublime
*lyrical excess and queer sexuality
*sodomy and moral panic
*queer ecopoetics
*queer children's literature
*compulsory homosociality and Romantic circles (or
circle jerks?)
*queer sensibility
*queer Jane(ites)
*female/female desire
*queering biography/ queer bio-criticism
*queer genius
*queer and class/ laboring class poets
*Wertherism
*cross/dressing (e.g in Walter Scott)
*transgendered authors (male and female)
*queer gothic (male and female)
*(un)dead boys and girls (e.g in Coleridge, Keats)
*autoerotics and poetics
*Greek love and neo-Hellenism
*homodepression and illness
*disability and Romanticism
*queering Orientalism
*sex and death
*Romanticism and contemporary AIDS discourses
*German/ European Romanticism
*Romantic afterlives in multimedia (including film)
*queer visual culture/ theories of the ga(y)ze
*homoerotics and mourning
*sodomy and the law
*sodomy and religion
*Romanticism and queer pedagogy
*travel and queer sexuality (e.g The Grand Tour)
*Romantic fashion
*queer approaches to Romanticism as they intersect
with:
-Deconstruction
-Postcolonial criticism
-Marxism
-Psychoanalysis
-Black Queer studies/ Critical Race Theory.
Abstracts of no less than 250 words should be sent in
the body of an e-mail (NO ATTACHMENTS PLEASE) to both:
Michael O'Rourke, University College, Dublin
([log in to unmask])
and
Professor David Collings , Bowdoin College, Maine
([log in to unmask]).
Those submitting should also include a brief biography
(title, institutional affiliation, recent
publications, current research) and their
institutional address.
The deadline for submission of proposals is FRIDAY 28
FEBRUARY 2003.
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