Romantic Adaptations:
A Strawberry Hill Symposium, 25-26 March 2011
This two-day conference, hosted jointly by the Departments of English, and Film and Popular Culture, at St. Mary’s University College, will mark the re-opening of Horace Walpole’s Gothic mansion at Strawberry Hill. Despite Blake’s often-quoted contention that he had to ‘create a system or be enslaved by another man’s’, the investment in originality during the Romantic period disguises a pervasive culture of adaptation. The diverse afterlives of Romanticism can also best be described as a history of adaptation. This conference, itself hosted in a highly adapted Gothic space, seeks to consider both romantic-period adaptation, and subsequent adaptations of ‘romanticism’ and ‘the romantics’.
Keynote speakers are: Andrew Bennett (Bristol); I.Q. Hunter (De Montfort); Peter Kitson (Dundee); and Nigel Leask (Glasgow).
The conference will also include a tour of Horace Walpole’s newly-adapted house.
For more details of the conference, including the programme of speakers and information on how to register, please go to: www.smuc.ac.uk/romanticadaptations
Enquiries should be sent to Caroline Ruddell at [log in to unmask]
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