Dear List
Please find attached and below the CFP for a conference at Edge Hill University next spring, devoted to all aspects of Romantic geography, locality, and migration; we would especially welcome proposals for papers on themes of exile, expatriation, and refuge. Please share among subject networks.
Thanks and best regards,
Mike.
Romanticism Takes to the Hills
Edge Hill University, Lancashire UK
Saturday 29 April 2017
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Tim Fulford, De Montfort University
A central tension in Romanticism has been a focus on locality and place, in the sense of a literature and culture grounded in a particular topography, and a contrasting fascination with exile and restless movement, a rootlessness transgressing temporal, geographical, and – implicit in our title - moral boundaries, into the realm of the bandit, the monster, the dispossessed. ‘Romanticism Takes to the Hills’ seeks papers, panels, and innovative presentation formats which bring new methodologies to bear on the paradoxical relationship between places, spaces, and identity in the long Romantic period, ca. 1750-1850. We are particularly interested in approaches to the figure of the refugee and / or emigrant in the Romantic period.
Proposals for individual papers, panels of three speakers and a chair, or innovative presentation formats, are invited on the following topics (although they are certainly not limited to them):
• Romanticism, place, and space: eco- and / or geocritical approaches to Romantic authors, texts, and / or networks
• Local, regional, national, transnational, global approaches to Romantic authors, texts and / or networks
• Migration, forced movement, dislocation, especially the experience of being a refugee and / or seeking refuge
• Exile, homelessness, dispossession
• Crime and criminality
• The intersections of race, class, and / or gender in relation to space and place, especially from groups whose relationship with the landscape has often been marginalised in conventional narratives
• The growth of tourism and the heritage industry at home and abroad in the Romantic period
• Romantic movement(s)
Please submit abstracts of 250 words for individual papers, or panel proposals / innovative presentation formats of 500 words (including a brief introduction and details of each paper), along with a short biography of presenters, to [log in to unmask] by Monday 9 January 2017.
There is an opportunity for selected papers from the symposium to be revised for a special edition of the journal La Questione Romantica.
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