Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Biography REGISTER NOW!
A Conference at the University of Leicester, 18th September 2015
Supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS): www.bavsuk.org and the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS): www.bars.ac.uk
Keynote speakers:
Prof. David Amigoni (Keele), 'Writing Lives Together in the Darwin family, 1804-1876: gender, heredity and authority'
Dr. Daisy Hay (Exeter), ‘Adventures of an Unromantic Biographer’
Recent biographical criticism and biographies of the Romantics and Victorians have moved away from a focus on the single life to encompass different creative relationships: the friendship circle; the literary family; the local or religious community. In so doing they are returning to the practices of Romantic and Victorian biographers who often ‘wrote Lives together’, both in the sense of focusing on multiple subjects and in adopting collaborative modes of authorship. Our conference will reflect on these and other kinds of ‘writing together’, in Romantic and Victorian life-writing – for instance how life-writing might bring together Romantic and Victorian subjects/authors; or different disciplines, materials or media. Panels will include ‘Women Writing Together’, ‘Religious Interactions’, ‘Intellectual Families’, ‘Literary Communities’, ‘Creative and Digital Projects’, ‘Collaborative Suppressions and Experiments’, and individual authors including Dickens and the Brontë sisters. Full programme now available on the website:
http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/english/news/life-writing-conference
The registration fee is £35 including lunch:
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For more details please contact Dr Julian North ([log in to unmask]) or Dr Felicity James ([log in to unmask])
Dr. Felicity James, Lecturer in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature School of English University of Leicester University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH UK
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Dr. Julian North, Senior Lecturer in 19th-Century Literature School of English University of Leicester Leicester LE1 7RH UK
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