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Travel, Tourism, and Resorts
27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE
OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, March 16-18, 2006
The Bible in the Nineteenth Century: the Word and its Re-Wordings in Bristish Literature and Thought:
The Bible has played a significant part in British culture since the Reformation. It has been a major reference not only in the field of religious experience but also, more broadly, in artistic expression and intellectual reflection. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Evangelical Revival thus placed the Scriptures at the heart of religious practices and certain Romantics reasserted the importance of the Bible in renewing its reading.
8 April 2005
Nineteenth-Century Prose invites submissions for a special issue on Matthew
Arnold. We encourage a wide range of topics focusing on prose works by
Arnold as well as topics related to broader issues regarding Arnold's
influence on literature (including individual authors), literary and
cultural studies, religious studies, and education. Arnold's current
standing in cultural studies or other academic fields is of particular
interest. Interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed. Submissions which
discuss both Arnold's poetry and prose are appropriate, but not those which
focus exclusively on poetry.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Interdisciplinary Essays on Wilkie Collins
Papers are being sought for a collection of essays on Wilkie Collins.
Edited by Andrew Mangham, the collection will be printed by Cambridge
Scholars Press in Spring 2006. I am particularly interested in essays
exploring the work of Wilkie Collins in relation to art, science, law,
theatre and film adaptation. I am also interested in essays that explore
the historical, periodical context of Collins's work.
Deadline for submissions: 1st June 2005. Essays are to be 5-6,000 words
in length and follow the author/date system.
Inquiries to: andrewscottmangham_at_hotmail.com
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CFP: Narratives in English by Women Explorers and Travellers 1700-1940
(France) (9/15/05; 2/3/06-2/4/06)
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
FEBRUARY 3-4, 2006
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT-ETIENNE (FRANCE)
While 18th and 19th century women were usually confined to the domestic
and national spheres some women indulged their dreams and travelled to
unexplored territories: their journeys to the Orient (Lady Montagu, Lady
Blunt, Gertrude Bell, Amelia Edwards, Freya Stark), to India (Emily Eden,
Fanny Parks), to America (Isabella Bird, Clara Bromley, France Trollope), to
Africa (Mary Kingsley) or to Australia (Daisy Bates) gave rise to
narratives.
Suitable for the Boudoir and the Circulating Library:
Marie Corelli and Popular Women Novelists 1880-1910
30th March – 1st April 2006
Hosted by
University of Birmingham, Liverpool John Moores University
Association for Research in Popular Fictions
To be held at Mason Croft, Shakespeare Institute
Stratford Upon Avon, England
Call for Papers – Deadline July 1st
To all VSB subscribers: the March issue will be on its way to you shortly;
we thank you for your patience during our editorial transition! Sincerely,
The Editors
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Please forward this message as necessary:
The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the July 2005 issue on the following subjects:
CALL FOR PAPERS
"Abusing the Muse: Inspiration and Exploitation in 19th and 20th
Century Literature and Culture"
Edited by Alex Gil Fuentes, Sandy Alexandre and A.C. Geoghan
Abstracts are invited for a new collection that explores the various
ways in which authors exploit their sources of artistic or intellectual
inspiration whether it be for profit, fame or other such unseemly
motivations.
Potential topics include but are not limited to:
CFP: Neurology and Literature at the Fin de Siècle (6/17/05; collection)
Submissions are invited for a collection of critical essays on
intersections between British, European, and North American literature
and neurology between 1870 and 1920. We are willing to consider essays on
literature examined in its scientific context, as well as essays
performing literary analyses of scientific texts. Submissions by emergent
as well as established scholars are welcome. A series editor at one of
Britain's leading academic presses has shown strong preliminary interest
in the project.
Phillip Mallett, University of St Andrews, Jane Thomas, University of Hull,
and Angelique Richardson, University of Exeter, are co-organizing a
postgraduate symposium which will form part of the international Thomas
Hardy Conference, 22-29 July 2006, Dorchester. We are keen to involve
young and new scholars in the Conference, which is the 17th biennial
Hardy conference, and it would be immensely useful to the Hardy Society
to have a general idea as to the number of postgraduates in the UK and US
currently working on Hardy (or whose research includes Hardy), and
whether they would be likely to come to the conference (would there, for
example, be any financial support from your institution). So if you are
Call for proposals for an essay collection tentatively entitled
"Consuming Youth"
Call for Papers
RLS2006: Transatlantic Stevenson
Conference web site: http://www3.uta.edu/english/rls2006/main.aspx
CFP: Asian and Black Writing in Britain, 1800-1930 (3/15/05; collection)
Colonial Cosmopolitanism: Asian and Black Writing in Britain, 1800-1930
UPDATE: Literature and Money, Journal Issue (05/15/05).
Please note that submission date is 2005, not 2004.
Victorian Review
(Journal of the Victorian Studies of Western Canada and the Victorian
Studies Association of Canada).
Special issue on the topic of Literature and Money.
Guest editor:
Andrew Smith, University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
Call for papers: Special Issue on Victorian Natural History
Victorian Literature and Culture seeks articles for an upcoming special
issue on Victorian natural history, edited by Barbara Gates. Essays should
follow MLA guidelines and may address any aspect of Victorian natural history.
Send two copies of manuscripts to Prof. Barbara T. Gates, Department of
English, University of Delaware, by December 31, 2005. E-mail inquiries may be
directed to bgates_at_udel.edu.
Submissions are invited for a collection of essays on women,
representation and space in 19th and 20th century literature. While the
main focus of the volume is women's metaphorical appropriation of public
and private spaces since the beginning of the 19th century until today,
the book will also pay particular attention to the way women writers
have interrogated and deconstructed the binary divide between public and
private space. Some possible topics include:
-- Public role of domestic settings, and their implications for women.
-- Literary configurations of interstitial or liminal spaces where the
separation between private and public sphere is suspended.
I am seeking chapter submissions for my upcoming collection of essays,
Interior Designs: Fictional Representations of the Creative Process in=20
British and American Nineteenth-century Literature
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Nineteenth-Century Prose invites submissions for a special issue on writing
by T. B. Macaulay, scheduled for fall, 2006.
We hope for a wide range of topics and approaches regarding particular essays by
Macaulay, or the Critical and Historical Essays as a corpus, and/or his History
of England. His parliamentary and bureaucratic
texts, such as those concerning India, will also be considered suitable subject
matter.
CFP: The History of Perversion, 1650-1850. Deadline for abstracts: Jan. 15th, 2005
Contributors are sought for a new book on 'The History of Perversion 1650-1850'. We specifically seek 300-word abstracts for articles within the boundaries of history of sexuality which examine so-called perversions; literary, historical fields and
interdisciplinary approaches welcome. Final essays of 10,000 words will be due May 15th, 2005. We anticipate a publication date of 2006.
CFP: Journal edition: Mapping Women's Poetries at the fin de siecle*** =
REMINDER ***
CALL FOR PAPERS=20
Journal of Victorian Literature and Culture=20
Editors' Topic: Mapping Women's Poetries at the fin de si=E8cle=20
Edited by Marion Thain and Ana Vadillo=20
Victorian Literature and Culture seeks articles for an upcoming special issue
on Food and the Victorians edited by Ross Forman and Suzanne Daly. Essays
should follow MLA guidelines and may address any aspect of the production or
consumption of food or drink. Please send two copies by November 1, 2005 to:
Suzanne Daly
Department of English
Bartlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003-9269
Inquiries may be directed to sdaly_at_english.umass.edu or to rf19_at_soas.ac.uk.
The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the December 2004 issue on the following subjects:
- Book/journal announcements
- Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
- CFP's
- Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
- News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, etc.)
- Online resources of interest to Victorianists
- Requests for information (research inquiries, etc.)
Announcing a new series from Ashgate Publishing
Studies in Childhood: 1700 to the Present
Series Editor: Claudia Nelson, Texas A&M University
Edited Volume
IMPRISONMENT IN VICTORIAN FICTION
Call for Contributions
(Deadline: April 30, 2005)
CFP for "Material Gothic": a special issue of Gothic Studies
Call for Papers: Children's Literature Volume 34 (special issue: pub.
Date 2006)
Deadline for submissions: 1/1/2005
Louisa May Alcott: "The Children's Friend" (?)
We have extended the deadline for abstracts for a
collection of essays on "Consuming Culture,"
originally posted under the working title of
"Consuming Culture: The Eating Pleasures and Problems
of Western Modernity," to 30 September 2004.
An academic press has already expressed interest in
the proposed collection.
Please note also the change in submission and contact
details.
CONSUMING CULTURE: FOOD FICTIONS AND THE CONSUMPTION
OF WESTERN MODERNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH
CENTURIES
Call for Papers
LEON EDEL PRIZE
The Leon Edel Prize is awarded annually for the best essay on Henry James
by a beginning scholar. The prize carries with it an award of $150, and
the prize-winning essay will be published in HJR.
The competition is open to applicants who have not held a full-time
academic appointment for more than four years. Independent scholars and
graduate students are encouraged to apply.
Essays should be 20-30 pages (including notes), original, and not under
submission elsewhere or previously published.
Send submissions (in duplicate, produced according to current MLA
style, and with return
postage enclosed) to:
CALL FOR PAPERS
Reading James
Responding, in part, to the readings and re-readings of Henry James that
circulated in the March 2004 issue of PMLA, this forum will take up the
topic of "Reading James."
The International Theodore Dreiser Society is pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Dreiser Essay Prize. The award is sponsored by the Dreiser Society and is given annually to the graduate student or untenured faculty member who submits the best previously unpublished essay on any aspect of the work of the American writer Theodore Dreiser.
Applicants may submit essays that consider any part of Dreiser's corpus or that connect his life or work to those of other writers or to his times. In addition to a cash award of $250, the winning essay will appear in Dreiser Studies, a refereed journal sponsored by the Society. Other worthy essays besides the winner will be considered for publication as well.