Another one for fans of Scott & Scotland (bad luck yesterday chaps)
Tom
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Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 15:22:56 -0700
Subject: International Scott Conference--call for papers
From: Ian Duncan <[log in to unmask]>
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SCOTT, SCOTLAND AND ROMANTICISM
The fifth meeting of the International Scott Conference
University of Oregon, Eugene, 21-25 July 1999
The fifth quadrennial meeting of the International Scott Conference will
take place on 21-25 July, 1999 at the University of Oregon Humanities
Center, Eugene, Oregon. While the thematic focus of the conference will
be on Scott and his literary, cultural, historical and intellectual
contexts in late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth century Scotland,
contributions are encouraged on all aspects of and approaches to Scott's
life, works, sources, reputation and influence, as well as on other
Scottish, Irish, British regional and colonial writers of the period,
and related topics.
Proposals are invited for individual 20-minute papers, or for sessions
consisting of 3-4 papers addressing a particular topic. These are due
(1-page paper proposals, 3-page session proposals) by 31 January 1999 at
the address below. In addition to formal papers, it is planned to
devote a number of sessions to symposia/round-table discussions of
current teaching, research and general-interest issues in Scott
criticism and scholarship, Scottish studies, Romanticism, etc.
Topics/ sessions might include:
--Literary production: Contemporary Scottish writers (e.g., Hogg, Galt,
Ferrier, Lockhart, Wilson, Baillie, Brunton); Irish writers (Edgeworth,
Owenson, Maturin, Moore); Women writers and intellectuals; Working-class
readers and writers; Scott and the Romantic poets and critics; "Scotch
Reviewers" and periodical journalism; Authorship, publishing and
institutions of cultural production; Patronage and the market;
Literature and the professions; Editing Scott and Hogg; Scott's lives:
biography and memoirs.
--Literature and politics: The Edinburgh ascendancy, 1802-32; Whigs,
Tories, Radicals and the "culture wars"; Revolution, Counter-revolution
and Reform; Law, order, crime and criminality.
--Romantic geographies: Scotland and Ireland, England, Wales; Scotland
in Britain; Scotland and Empire; Scotland and the Americas, Europe, the
Colonies: Canada, India, the Caribbean, Australasia and the Cape; Region
and nation: Highlands & Lowlands, Edinburgh, London, Glasgow, the
Borders, 'the Lakes'; Cultural, ethnic, racial others: Catholics, Celts,
Gypsies, Jews, Muslims, Africans.
--Versions of tradition: Folklore and popular culture; ballad revivals;
antiquarianism; Orality and literacy; Demonology, superstition, the
primitive; Industrialism and transformations of popular culture.
--Legacies of Enlightenment: Moral philosophy, political economy,
social history, rhetoric, anthropology; Historiography and historians;
Scott and the eighteenth century; Scotland after 1800:
Post-Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment; versions of Romanticism,
Anti-Romanticism.
--Civic life and institutions in Edinburgh: Architecture and the arts;
Raeburn, Wilkie, popular life and history-painting; Scott and the drama;
Scott and opera.
--Inventions of Scotland: National identity and culture, nationalism;
Scott and versions of literary/cultural tradition; Representing Scotland
/ Scotland as topos of Romanticism, in poetry, fiction, theatre,
painting, music, cinema.
--Genealogies: Gothic, romance, historical fiction, national tale; The
novel in relation to other narrative and non-narrative genres; History,
chronicle, news, gossip: the macro-, micro- and meta-narratives of
collective life; The world-historical and the everyday; The politics of
literary form.
Further details--keynote speakers, special events, registration and
accommodation, etc.--to be announced. Proposals [hardcopy only, please] and
inquiries to:
Ian Duncan
English Department
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-1286 U.S.A.
Email [inquiries only]: [log in to unmask]
Visit the Scott Conference website at:
http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/grad/snodgrass/scott99/scott99.html
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Dr Tom Cheesman (Lecturer in German / Dozent fuer Germanistik)
Department of German
University of Wales Swansea
Swansea SA2 8PP
Wales
GB
tel.: 00 44 1792 295170 - fax 295710
Email: <[log in to unmask]>
http://www.swan.ac.uk/german/homepage.htm
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