THE ENGLISH ROMANTICS:
              ROMANTICISM AND (POST)COLONIAL SPACES

Until 1 July I will be accepting proposals for the English
Romantics Panel of the 9th Annual Central New York Conference on
Language and Literature to be held 3-5 October at Cortland College
of the State University of New York (this is central New York at
the peak of fall foliage).

The panel will be organized around theorizations of relationships
between British Romanticism and colonialism/imperialism and/or
British Romanticism and postcoloniality. I am particularly
interested in papers that address both of these issues (teasing out
both emancipatory and imperial elements of a text) with an emphasis
on space in any manifestation, including the space of idealism,
cartography, home, and painting.

This is a congenial and internationally attended conference.

Please send proposals for (or complete) 15 minute presentations to:

Kevin Hickey
3027 Williamsburg Dr.
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Exploring the Romantic-era Novel, 1780 -1840

University of Groningen, The Netherlands
17-19 November 1999

 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 encourage your graduate students to submit proposals for 
papers.

Further information on this conference and regular updates for hotel and 
registration information can be found at the following website:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/corvey/romhome/romhome.html


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

The conference maps 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.  As new work on the Romantic-era novel 
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.

Some issues to be debated
        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?
        What is the role of circulating libraries?
        What is the significance of the Minerva and other popular
presses on
                 various novel genres, including hybrid genres?
        What are the international dimensions of novel production, such
as
                translations, and cosmopolitan exchanges and influences,
                including the export of sentimental discourses to
America?

There will be special sessions on the following topics:
        The significance(s) of Rousseau's *La Nouvelle Heloise*
        Figuring Property in Novels by Women
        The Visionary Woman in the Romantic Novel

The conference will take place the old university town of Groningen, an
easy two-hour train journey north of Amsterdam. Details are available on 
the conference website:

http://www.shu.ac.uk/corvey/romhome/romhome.html

(linked to the Sheffield Hallam University Corvey Project 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
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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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