Romantic Orientalism 12-15 July 2002, University of Wales Conference
Centre, Gregynog, Powys.
Plenary speakers include Professor Tim Fulford, (Nottingham Trent
University); Professor Peter Kitson (University of Dundee); Dr Nigel
Leask (Queen's College, Cambridge); and Professor P.J. Marshall
(University College, London).
The aim of this conference is to focus a post-Saidian scrutiny upon
the cultural, political, commercial, and aesthetic dimensions of the
synchronous growth of Romanticism and Orientalism. The European
Romantic imagination was saturated with Orientalism, but it reflected
persistent ambivalence concerning the East, complicated in Britain by
colonial anxiety and imperial guilt. We shall consider how Western
notions of cultural hegemony were bolstered by imperial rhetoric and
challenged by intercultural translation. We shall focus upon the ways
in which the East problematized Romanticism's preoccupations with the
building and overthrow of empires, the mythic and idealistic
revaluation of human potential, and the construction and
deconstruction of planes of consciousness, meaning, and identity.
Proposals for 30 minute papers are invited and should be sent to Dr
Michael J. Franklin, Department of English, University of Wales, Hugh
Owen Building, Penglais Aberystwyth SY23 3DY ([log in to unmask]) by
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