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This is a reminder that the deadline for abstracts for the following conference is coming up very soon. The organisers will be happy to consider abstracts that reach them before *30 January*. Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle An international conference on collecting, editing, performing, producing, reading, and reviving Romanticism at the Fin de Siècle Trinity College Oxford, 14-15 June 2013 Keynote Speaker: Professor Joseph Bristow (UCLA) Call For Papers This conference places Romanticism at the core of the British Fin de Siècle. As an anti-Victorian movement, the British Fin de Siècle is often read forwards and absorbed into a 'long twentieth century', in which it takes the shape of a prehistory or an embryonic form of modernism. By contrast, Fin-de-Siècle authors and critics looked back to the past in order to invent their present and imagine their future. Just at the time when the concept of 'Victorian'crystallized a distinct set of literary and cultural practices, the radical break with the immediate past found in Romanticism an alternative poetics and politics of the present. The Fin de Siècle played a distinctive and crucial role in the reception of Romanticism. Romanticism emerged as a category, a dialogue of forms, amovement, a style, and a body of cultural practices. The Fin de Siècle established the texts of major authors such as Blake and Shelley, invented a Romantic canon in a wider European and comparative context, but also engaged in subversive reading practices and other forms of underground reception. The aim of this conference is to foster a dialogue between experts of the two periods. We welcome proposals for papers on all aspects of Fin-de-Siècle Romanticism, especially with a cross-disciplinary or comparative focus. Topics might include: ? bibliophilia and bibliomania ? collecting ? cults ? editing ? objects ? performance ? poetics ? politics ? print culture ? sociability ? continuities and discontinuities ? Romanticism and Decadence ? Romantic Classicism ? European Romanticism and the English Fin de Siècle Deadline for abstracts: 30 January 2013 Please email 300-word abstracts to [log in to unmask] Conference organisers: Luisa Calè (Birkbeck) and Stefano Evangelista (Oxford) This conference is co-organised by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and the English Faculty of Oxford University with the support of the MHRA ********************************************************* British Association for Romantic Studies http://www.bars.ac.uk<http://www.bars.ac.uk/> To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please contact Neil Ramsey <[log in to unmask]> Also use this address 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 *********************************************************