Proposals are now being accepted for the thirteenth annual conference of the
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism,  "Deviance and
Defiance," to be held in Montreal, Canada, 13-17 August 2005

The conference topic, ³Deviance and Defiance," revisits Romantic
transgressions and Romanticism as trangression, how Romanticism is a
transgression, is transgressive, and transgresses itself. The topic engages
notions of deviance and defiance from numerous perspectives, including the
Romantics' defiance of and deviation from the norms of their own period,
including questioning the legitimacy of what is "the norm" or "normal" in
Romanticism, what is the norm of Romanticism.

POSSIBLE TOPICS for NASSR 2005:
- Political and aesthetic defiance
- Religious deviations and defiance
- Deviating world views at the turn of the eighteenth century
- Sexual deviance and transgression
- Textual deviants
- Deviations of nation, trangressions of nationality and nationhood
- Romantic criminal deviants and Romantic criminality
- Defiance in the public sphere
- Deviations from nature and the natural
- (Re)defining Romantic norms, normality, and the normal
- Taxonomical deviations
- Defying philosophical and scientific categories
- Defying history; gender transgressions.

We welcome submissions from all disciplines with an interest in the
conference topic. Please e-mail paper proposals (500 words) to [log in to unmask]

For the general call for papers and more information about NASSR 2005,
please visit the conference website:
http://www.etang.umontreal.ca/nassr2005

PLENARY SPEAKERS:
Andrew Elfenbein; Tim Fulford; Michael Gamer; and Tilottama Rajan

ORGANIZERS: 
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal) and Joel Faflak (University
of Western Ontario)

CONFERENCE COMMITTEE:
Jason Camlot (Concordia University), Monique Morgan (McGill University),
Peter Sabor (McGill University), Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University), and
Tabitha Sparks (McGill University)

(This year's NASSR conference will also be dovetailed with the seventh
biennal conference of the International Gothic Association, also focusing on
deviance and defiance, which will be held from the 11th-14th of August at
the same location; see http://www.wlu.ca/~wwwgac/IGA2005.)
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Dr. Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Director of Graduate Studies
Departement d'etudes anglaises
Universite de Montreal
CP 6128, Station Centre-ville
Montreal, Quebec H3C3J7 - Canada
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Editor *Romanticism on the Net*
http://www.ron.umontreal.ca
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