ethnicity and national identity

‘Writing Romantic Lives’A One Day Postgraduate Symposium, hosted by Romanticism @ Edge Hill University & Keele UniversityCFP for a one-day postgraduate symposium on 25th November 2017 ‘The best part of human language, properly so called, is derived from reflection on the acts of the mind itself.’ – S. T. Coleridge This postgraduate conference is held in celebration of the 200th anniversary of S. T. Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria (1817), an experimental combination of life writing, philosophy, and literary criticism.

An “Aesthetic Apartheid” occurs when the artistic innovations of a minoritized group are neglected due to their difference. [1] The focus on white and western innovations in literature have created the assumption that non-white avant-garde poetry, "however singular its ‘voice’ is not ‘formally innovative’.”[2] Examples of this bias are evident in monographs about the avant-garde, in which people of color are far too often excluded. Dorothy Wang writes that “anyone who has spent time in avant-garde poetry/and or critical circles in the States [….] knows that these circles are overwhelmingly unpigmented.”[3]

Call for Abstracts for Special Issue: Geographies of Comparison: Ireland and South Africa

Theme: This collection is designed for people to speak out on specific rights, resources, and protections they feel have been threatened as a result of the presidential election (both as a result of campaign rhetoric as well as post-election decisions).

We invite content including academic essays, feminist rants, op-eds, poetry, photojournalism, and other forms of art.

Possible themes may include:

• Gaslighting and violence

• Alternative facts

• Rhetoric, metaphors, or symbolism

Masculinity in Women’s Literature

In Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Bennett can never match the resourcefulness of his wife in her attempts to settle their five daughters in life; Edgar Linton in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a caricature of manliness; in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Wives and Daughters, an only daughter, Molly Gibson, proves to be a better child to her father than a son, Osborne Hamley, who fails his parents; George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss presents Maggie Tulliver as a far stronger, braver and tougher character than her brother Tom.