Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
Scotland, Ireland and the Romantic Aesthetic
5-7 July 2002, University of Aberdeen
Plenary speakers: Kevin Barry, Ian Duncan, David Hewitt,
Fiona Stafford, Timothy Webb.
Intended for general Romanticists as well as Scottish and Irish literary
specialists, this international conference, the first of its kind, aims to
investigate connections and parallels between the literatures of Scotland
and Ireland in the period 1760-1830, including their relationship with
English Romanticism. Fostering dialogue between academic fields
traditionally kept apart, the conference will explore the Irish and
Scottish dimension of the Romantic movement, and encourage a more
integrated approach to the literary culture of the period. Proposals for
20-minute papers relating to any aspect of this subject are invited;
comparative and/or interdisciplinary approaches are especially welcome.
Possible topics include: English bards and Scotch reviewers; national epic,
tale and song; the aesthetics of revolution and counter-revolution;
rhetoric and belles lettres; Edinburgh, Dublin and the regional book trade;
aesthetic subjects and objects; allegories of union and the Glorvina
solution; trauma, history and romantic narrative; primitivism, forgery and
invented identity; literary tourism in Scotland and Ireland; stereotypes
and caricatures; imperfect sympathies; anthologies, miscellanies and
national canon-formation; minstrelsy and melody; literary representations
of dialect; romantic ecology of Scotland and Ireland; Celtic
correspondence.
This conference is jointly organised by the Department of English and the
Research Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies. Please send abstracts
(300 words) to Catherine Jones, Department of English, University of
Aberdeen, King's College, Aberdeen AB24 2UB. For further details, contact
[log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] Closing date for proposals:
1 April 2002.
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