Dear Colleagues,
A one-day conference jointly organized by two AHRC-funded projects:
European Travellers to Wales 1750–2010 & Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour 1760-1820
National Library of Wales 16 April 2016
A one-day conference looking at perceptions of Wales and Scotland in a century’s worth of travel- writing from Continental Europe. What attracted travellers from France, Germany, Switzerland, and the Low Countries to venture beyond the attractive bustle of London to the Celtic peripheries? How aware are writers of the cultural differences within the United Kingdom? What sources and literary influences inspire them, and shape their experience?
We are particularly interested in exploring European translations of (or borrowings from) the trail-blazing works of Thomas Pennant (author of numerous Tours in Scotland and Wales 1769–1778) and William Gilpin (Observations on the River Wye 1782), and others. How are these key works mediated in different European languages, and do they colour Continental experiences of Wales and Scotland, as they undoubtedly did for British travellers? Pennant himself travelled on the Continent in 1765, and formed important links with some of the foremost members of the scientific community: to what extent did these networks help to spread knowledge of his work across Europe?
Potential topics could also include: Translating travel texts / Literary tourism: Gray, Ossian, Herder, Scott/ Continental Celtic connections and prehistoric landscapes (particularly post-Renan and Arnold)/ The aesthetics of landscape/picturesque – parallels with Alps / Scientific tours, natural history or geology – European networks and influences.
Please send your proposal (c.300 words) for a 20-minute paper to Angharad Elias [log in to unmask] by 30 November 2015.
Dr Mary-Ann Constantine
Senior Research Fellow/ Ymchwilydd Hŷn
University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies
Canolfan Uwchefrydiau Cymreig a Cheltaidd Prifysgol Cymru
National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
Aberystwyth
Ceredigion
SY23 3HH
01970 636543 / 01970 631009 (llinell uniongyrchol/direct line)
e-bost: [log in to unmask]
PI: Curious Travellers: Thomas Pennant and the Welsh and Scottish Tour 1760-1820 / Teithwyr Chwilfrydig: Thomas Pennant a theithiau yng Nghymru ac yr Alban 1760-1820
PI: Wales and the French Revolution /Cymru a’r Chwyldro Ffrengig
Project leader/Arweinydd Prosiect: Iolo Morganwg and the Romantic Tradition in Wales / Iolo Morganwg a’r Traddodiad Rhamantaidd yng Nghymru.
http://www.wales.ac.uk/en/CentreforAdvancedWelshCelticStudies/StaffPages/MaryAnnConstantine.aspx
http://www.wales.ac.uk/cy/YGanolfanGeltaidd/StaffPages/MaryAnnConstantine.aspx
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