Call for Papers
Romantic Circulations
The 11th biennial International conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies (BARS)
23-26 July 2009
Roehampton University, London, UK
Some of the most productive recent work on the literature and culture of
the Romantic period has explored ideas of circulation. The range of
scholarship influenced by this approach includes studies of sociability,
reading, publishing, anthologizing, conversation, visual and verbal
cultures, the history of affect, medicine and disease, and colonialism
and slavery. This aim of 'Romantic Circulations' is to investigate the
transmission of Romantic ideas, knowledge, cultural forms and literary
discourses in the context of changing relations between artist and
audience, writer and reader, producer and consumer, elite and popular,
national and trans-national
Topics might include, but not be limited by the following:
The circulation of sympathy: models of the social as a system of
circulation.
The circulation and transformation of ideas: Conversation and
sociability; lectures and debating clubs; education, Sunday schools.
Reading, reception and audiences: studies of the transmission and
reception of visual and verbal texts in the period.
Visual Circulation: the dissemination of paintings and prints;
extra-illustration, marginalia and Grangerization; public spectacle and
galleries.
Circulation of print: Anthologies, pamphlets, publishing, libraries,
lending and borrowing; circulation through translation.
Economies of circulation: money as a material object; economic theory
and political economy; the circulation of objects.
Travel and Technologies of circulation: Transport by road, river, canal,
balloon; the post.
Metaphors of circulation: water, fountains and light.
Circulation and the body: Blood and medical circulation; contamination
and disease; sexual circulation: libertinism and prostitution.
Trade, commerce and empire: Romantic colonialism; utopias; slavery;
orientalism.
Proposals for panels are particularly welcome.
Please send 200-word proposals for each 20-minute paper with brief
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Deadline for submission: 31 October 2008
Conference website: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/romanticcirculations/
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