Announcement and Preliminary Call for Papers
Charlotte Smith and British Romanticism:
A Bicentenary Conference
28-29 October 2006
University of Warwick, UK
Charlotte Smith died on 28 October 1806, famously commemorated by William
Wordsworth as a poet ‘to whom English verse is under greater obligations than
are likely to be either acknowledged or remembered’. This conference seeks to
draw together Smith scholars and evaluate her current place in the Romantic
canon. Smith’s poetry, from Elegiac Sonnets on, caught the zeitgeist of a
style colored by personal reflection as well as poetical experimentation and
innovation and political intervention. Her novels are models of the
late-eighteenth-century interest in sensibility, history, and subjectivity.
Since the early 1990s criticism of her works has burgeoned, and she is now
regularly described as central to the formation of a style of Romantic writing
made familiar by Wordsworth. Her complete Works are currently in preparation
for publication by Pickering and Chatto, and of her novels, The Old Manor
House, Emmeline, Celestina, and Desmond are in print.
Initial expressions of interest are now invited. A full Call for Papers will be
available in the Autumn of 2005. Any questions may be addressed to Jackie
Labbe, [log in to unmask]; Dept. of English and Comparative Literary
Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK.
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