The University of
Chester English Department
The Other
Nineteenth Century
A One-Day
Interdisciplinary Conference, 20th June 2009
Keynote speaker: Dr
Catherine Spooner (
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
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