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> Dear all,
>
> Please find attached the cfp for a forthcoming conference on Neo-
> Victorianism at the University of Exeter. Details are also included
> below
> as plain text. Thank you.
>
> CFP: Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation
> (31/10/2006; 10/09/2007-12/09/2007)
>
> NEO-VICTORIANISM: THE POLITICS AND AESTHETICS OF APPROPRIATION
>
> “The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know
> too much
> about it.”
> (Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 1918)
>
> An international conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian
> Studies at
> the University of Exeter, 10-12 September 2007
>
> Keynote speakers: Professor Cora Kaplan, Professor John Sutherland and
> Professor Imelda Whelehan
>
> Confirmed participants to include: Regenia Gagnier, Ann Heilmann,
> Philip
> Hensher, Martina Lauster, Brian Maidment, Rick Rylance
>
> Who were ‘the Victorians’, and why have they continued to exert
> such an
> influence throughout the twentieth century and beyond? From the
> domestic
> goddess to hegemonic globalisation, from neo-Victorian novels to the
> Dickensian ‘soap opera’, from ‘new Victorian’ feminism to ‘boy’s own’
> masculinity, and from Victorian values to the Victoria sponge, this
> conference is interested in the ways in which a Victorian legacy
> has both
> inspired and haunted succeeding national and international
> generations.
>
> We welcome abstracts from those working in all areas and disciplines.
> Topics will include but are not limited to:
>
> · Architecture and interior design
> · Cooking and consumption
> · Drama, display and exhibitions
> · Fashion, shopping and commodity culture
> · Feminism and post-feminism
> · Film and television adaptation
> · Gender and sexuality
> · Globalisation and imperialism
> · Literary and visual culture
> · Medicine
> · Politics
> · Religion
> · Time, space and place
> · Victoriana
>
> Please send abstracts of 300-500 words by 31st October 2006 to Dr
> Becky
> Munford and Dr Paul Young at: [log in to unmask]
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