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        [Pillarbox] The Romantic-Era Novel, 1780-1840 (Netherlands)
6/17, 11/17-9
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        Thu, 01 Apr 1999 07:01:35 PST
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        "Liz Hedgecock" <[log in to unmask]>
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From: "Liz Hedgecock" <[log in to unmask]>

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Reply to: "W.M. Verhoeven" <[log in to unmask]>

Dear colleagues,

We enclose details of our November conference, "Exploring the
Romantic-Era Novel", which we hope will be of interest to you. Please 
forward as appropriate and do encourage your
graduate students to submit proposals for papers.

We look forward to seeing you in Groningen.

Very best wishes,

Emma Clery,
Amanda Gilroy,
Wil Verhoeven

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Exploring the Romantic-era Novel, 1780 -1840

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
17-19 November 1999

Plenary Speakers:
Nancy Armstrong (Brown University);
Claudia L. Johnson (Princeton University);
Robert Miles (Sheffield Hallam University)

Call for papers

The conference will map the multiple critical journeys taken in studies 
of the Romantic-era novel in the years since 1972, when Robert Kiely 
defined the genre of the Romantic novel. Recent critics have moved away 
from Kiely’s attempt to define the Romantic novel as a complementary 
category for Romantic poetry.  Instead, as new work on Austen and Mary 
Shelley, the Gothic novel, Scott and Burney demonstrates, contemporary 
readings of the period’s fiction are informed by theories of 
post-colonialism, feminism, and new historicism, and attend to the 
complex relations between prose fiction and nationalism, economics, 
politics, and scientific discourses (amongst others). The conference 
will be an opportunity to take stock of advances in this field, and to 
consider aspects of the genre still neglected.

Issues to be debated include: What is the relation between the novel and 
“Romanticism”? Is the novel of this period cosmopolitan or provincial? 
What is the impact of new scholarly editions, especially of the work of 
women writers? Papers are also invited on the role of circulating 
libraries, on the significance of the Minerva and other popular presses, 
on subgenres which flourished in the latter part of the period, such as 
the Newgate novel and the Silverfork novel, as well as on hybrid genres 
(the verse novel, the travelogue). Contributions are particularly 
welcomed on the international dimensions of novel production, such as 
translations, and cosmopolitan exchanges and influences, including the 
export of sentimental discourses to America.

The conference will take place the old university town of Groningen, an 
easy two-hour train journey north of Amsterdam. Further details
(including information about hotel accommodation, registration fees, and 
so on) will soon be available on the conference website (linked to the 
Sheffield Hallam University homepage).

We welcome the submission of special session proposals (such proposals
should include a title, a chairperson, and abstracts of 3 papers), and
of individual papers (which should not exceed 20 minutes). Please send
500 word abstracts, or complete papers, before 17 June 1999, to the
conference organisers at BOTH the Universities of Groningen AND
Sheffield Hallam:

Amanda Gilroy or Wil Verhoeven, Dept. of English, University of
Groningen, PO Box 716, 9700 AS Groningen, The Netherlands. Tel.
+31.50.3635850. Fax: +31.50.3635821. Email: [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask]

And: Emma Clery, School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam
University, Collegiate Crescent, Sheffield S10 2BP, UK. Tel.
+44.114.2720911. Email: [log in to unmask]

This conference is co-organised by the Department of English, University 
of Groningen, and the School of Cultural Studies, Sheffield Hallam 
University.


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