PLEASE JOIN US AT A SYMPOSIUM ON NEW APPROACHES TO THE BRITISH NOVEL:
1790-1848
DATES: October 5-6, 2001
PLACE: University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
SPEAKERS: James Chandler, Ian Duncan, Mary Favret, Deidre Lynch
PROGRAM: Anyone wishing to attend can join us at all events during the
symposium. Each of the four speakers will give a formal presentation on
Friday and will teach a master class on Saturday (materials for the
classes will be handed out ahead of time). Anyone pre-registering and
attending lectures and classes has the option of being listed on the
program.
ACCOMMODATIONS: We will provide a list of hotels so that you may make your
own reservations (Reserve Early! Boulder is a popular vacation site).
REGISTRATION FEE: Regular: 30.00; graduate students: 15.00; includes
reception (Friday Night), and coffee, tea, snacks (Saturday), and party
(Saturday night). Please contact us and send in fee by August 15th.
You can get more information from the Conference Organizers, Professors
Jill Heydt-Stevenson and Charlotte Sussman, through e-mail or regular
mail.
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Department of English
University of Colorado,
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PROGRAM
We invite you to attend and to participate in a symposium on "New
Approaches to the British Novel, 1790-1848." The conference's purpose is
to explore the Novel of the Romantic Period, a subject that has recently
generated enormous new interest and which is allied to the interest in
recovering women writers, new theories of and studies of sexuality during
this period, and post-colonial theory, particularly as it relates to
England's "internal colonization" of Scotland and Ireland. Four prominent
speakers will present both formal lectures and lead discussion-centered
master classes :
JAMES CHANDLER: The Barbara and Richard Franke Professor of the Humanities
at the Univ. of Chicago, and author of England in 1819: The Politics of
Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism (Chicago)
Lecture: "Rethinking Maria Edgeworth." Professor Chandler will
discuss Edgeworth's Irish Tales and *Belinda* and Lady Morgan's *Wild
Irish Girl.*
IAN DUNCAN: Professor at UC, Berkeley and author of Modern Romance and
Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, and Dickens (Cambridge)
Lecture: "Authenticity Effects: The Work of Fiction in Romantic
Scotland." Professor Duncan will look at James Hogg's *Private Memoirs and
Confessions of a Justified Sinner* and Walter Scott's *Redgauntlet*, both
published in June 1824, and sharing certain peculiar effects, notably a
critical self-reflexiveness about their own material and cultural status as
printed books and as works of fiction emerging from a modern (or
"Romantic") Scottish literary tradition.
MARY FAVRET: Associate Professor at Indiana University and author of
Romantic Correspondence: Women, Politics and the Fiction of Letters
(Cambridge)
Lecture: "War, The Everyday, and the Romantic Novel." Analyzing
Austen's *Persuasion* and "Emma" and Smith's *Emmeline," Professor Favret
will seek to determine whether or not, or in what ways, warfare
--specifically the experience of the Napoleonic Wars -- was represented as
a "real" event, that is, as an event accommodated to or represented by
developing notions of fictional realism.
DEIDRE LYNCH: Associate Professor at Indiana University and the author of
The Economy of Character: Novels, Market Culture, and the Business of
Inner Meaning (Chicago)
Lecture: Austen for Everyday Use: Killing Time in
Nineteenth-Century Series Fiction." Professor Lynch turns to the rewriting
of Austen that engages nineteenth-century series fictions, such as
Oliphant's Chronicles of Carlingford, Trollope's Barsetshire series, as
well as in the generic forerunner to both these series, Scott's Waverley
Novels, in order to remember an alternative definition of the business of
the novel.
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