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'Make-believe of a settlement': Nineteenth-Century Venice 12-13 July 2003, School of English, University of Leeds Plenary speakers: Professor John Dixon Hunt (Pennsylvania) 'The "ruined garden" of 19th-century Venice: fact & fiction' and Professor Robert Hewison (London), 'Ruskin, San Marco, and the Protestant Beholder'. CALL FOR PAPERS Abstracts are invited (no more than 300 words) for papers of 20 minutes for this interdisciplinary conference on Nineteenth-Century Venice. Papers may address any aspect of the city's life, including the cultural, political, social, architectural, economic, musical, artistic, literary, sexual, horticultural, or material. Papers on imaginative constructions of Venice and on individual figures including Grant Allen, Rawdon Brown, Robert Browning, Byron, Gautier, Augustus Hare, Henry James, Vernon Lee, Margaret Oliphant, Ruskin, Verdi, Wagner are also welcome. All papers should be delivered in English. Abstracts, snail mail or email, should be sent, by 28 February 2003, to: Dr Francis O'Gorman The School of English University of Leeds Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK Email: [log in to unmask] Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/Venice.html ============================ Dr Francis O'Gorman School of English University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT Tel. 0113 343 4798 Fax. 0113 343 4774 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/staff/pages/o%27gorman.html CONFERENCE 12-13 July 2003 http://www.leeds.ac.uk/english/activities/Venice.html ********************************************************* British Association for Romantic Studies To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please contact Sharon Ruston <[log in to unmask]> or Fiona Price <[log in to unmask]>. Also use these addresses to register any change in your e-mail address, or to be removed from the list. Messages are held in archives, along with other information about the Mailbase at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html ********************************************************* Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/