CFP: Romantic and Victorian Entertainments (grad) (12/1/06; 3/23/07-3/24/07)
Romantic and Victorian Entertainments
Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia
March 23-24, 2007
>From the Grand Tour to gambling, and grand balls to opium dens, nineteenth-century authors represented entertainment in various ways. The virtues and vices of nineteenth-century amusements and leisure activities were themes in both British and American literature of the period, and these areas of life reflected and defined the historical, social, and literary climate of the century.