The Keats Foundation is delighted to announce its fifth bicentenary conference, ‘Shadows, Magnitudes, Tests and Trials: John Keats in 1818’, to be held at Keats House, Hampstead 18-20 May 2018. Our confirmed keynote speakers are Richard Cronin, Meiko O’Halloran, and Carol Kyros Walker.
1818 was a productive if perilous year for John Keats, beginning with his storm-battered coach journey from London to Exeter, en route to Teignmouth where he completed Isabella; or, the Pot of Basil. Summer 1818 saw him footing slow through the Lake District and South West Scotland, then on into the Highlands and Islands of Scotland’s west coast – Mull, Iona, Staffa and the summit of Ben Nevis. Autumn back at Well Walk, Hampstead, was devoted to caring for his brother Tom, who died on 1 December. Amid all this he wrote wonderful letters and great poetry, and met Fanny Brawne for the first time. He finished the year at a bloody thirty-four round prize-fight between Jack Turner and Ned Randall. Our conference invites explorations of Keats’s life and creativity throughout this remarkable year — and beyond it.
Proposals for twenty-minute papers are now invited on all aspects of ‘Shadows, Magnitudes, Tests and Trials: John Keats in 1818’ — in his poetry, letters, manuscripts, life, and posthumous reputation (myths and memoirs; biographies; critical reception; creative afterlives and legacies – poetry, painting, imagined lives). Papers will also be welcomed in relation to his circle of friends, including (but not limited to) Fanny Brawne, Charles Brown, Lord Byron, Charles Cowden Clarke, William Hazlitt, John and Leigh Hunt, Isabella Jones, the Ollier brothers, John Hamilton Reynolds, Joseph Severn, Percy and Mary Shelley, and John Taylor the publisher. Please submit 200-word paper proposals to [log in to unmask] by the deadline of Monday 5 March 2018. Further details of the conference can be found on the attached.
The Keats Foundation has a new website which is well worth a look. See http://keatsfoundation.com/
Nicholas Roe (St Andrews), Richard Marggraf Turley (Aberystwyth) and Sarah Wootton (Durham)
With best wishes,
Sarah
Dr Sarah Wootton
Associate Professor
Department of English Studies
Durham University
Elvet Riverside
New Elvet
Durham, DH1 3JT
http://www.dur.ac.uk/english.studies/academicstaff/?id=1495
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