Call for Papers
Romantic Circulations
The
11th biennial International conference of the British Association
for Romantic Studies (
23-26
July 2009
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.
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 affiliation details to: [log in to unmask]
Deadline for submission: 31 October 2008
Conference website: http://www.roehampton.ac.uk/romanticcirculations/
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