The University of Chester English Department
The Other Nineteenth Century
A One-Day Interdisciplinary Conference, 20th June 2009
Keynote speaker: Dr Catherine Spooner (University of Lancaster)
This interdisciplinary one-day conference seeks to explore the notion of
the other in nineteenth-century culture. How was otherness represented
in the nineteenth century? What attempts were made to classify otherness
within medical, scientific, and imperialistic discourses?
To what extent was the other a realm of desire for nineteenth-century
writers and artists? Can we speak of an 'alternative' nineteenth
century, one which is on the margins, or even beyond the bounds, of
academia? We welcome papers covering all aspects of otherness in the
culture of the long nineteenth century.
Possible topics may include:
The foreign; the deviant; doubles and doubling; alternative histories;
the unknown, hidden, or lost; spiritualism; representations of the
other; other languages and discourses; the noncanonical; the alien;
strangers and strangeness; difference; oddities; the unspeakable; the
human-object borderline....
Deadline for proposals: 28 February 2009
Please send an abstract of app rox. 250 words to either:
Dr Sally West [log in to unmask] or
Dr Deborah Wynne [log in to unmask]
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