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





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