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Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
34th Annual Meeting
Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
February 14-18, 2008
Anti-Theatricality's Legacy in the Long Eighteenth Century
I am inviting proposals for papers on an approved panel entitled “The
Long Restoration: Literature and Culture, 1649-1737″ at the Southeastern
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference to take place
at Auburn University, February 14-17, 2008. This panel hopes to expand
our understanding of the social positionings of British writings composed
or published during the years surrounding the Restoration of the monarchy.
New Light on Night Thoughts
Submissions are sought for a panel at ASECS on Edward Young's Night
Thoughts. Any approach to the poem (or its disappearance from the canon)
is welcome, including discussions of its influence on poetry or the arts
thereafter.
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"Bubbles, Crashes, and Other Financial Crises in Art and Literature"
A session of the 2008 Meeting of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies (Portland, OR, March 27-30, 2008).
I invite paper proposals dealing with the visual and/or verbal treatments
of the financial crises and innovations that shaped economic and cultural
history in the long eighteenth century. Papers that focus on under-studied
geographical areas, as well as papers written from an interdisciplinary
and/or comparative perspective are particularly welcome.
In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes claims that some men are born with minds that
move too quickly (1648). Supposedly, such swift-minded men are in danger of
being “snatched from their purpose by everything that comes in their
thought, into so many and so long digressions and parentheses that they
utterly lose themselves.†Almost a century later, however, David Hume
claims that rapid-moving thoughts are an essential part of human nature:
men are “nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which
succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity; and are in a perpetual
flux and movement.†What, then, does it mean to think “too fast†in the
THE IDEOLOGY OF POETICS AND POETIC FORM AND PRACTICE IN THE EIGHTEENTH
CENTURY
8-9 December 2007
Institute for Cultural, Social, and Policy Studies
University of Salford, UK
The historicising of eighteenth-century literature in recent years has
culminated in highly contextualised studies of expository prose and
fiction; eighteenth-century poetry has too often been seen as a remote
medium that did not respond to the social, political, and cultural
changes that society underwent. With the (re-)discovery of an alternative
literary canon, more attention is paid to the interaction between form
and ideology.
This panel solicits multidisciplinary approaches in an attempt to
understand the many contexts of John Gay’s *Trivia*. It aims to examine
*Trivia* from numerous angles as a way to reveal the socio-historical
assumptions and formal innovations of the poem. The panel, therefore, will
look at the poem as literary representation, as sociological knowledge, and
historical reality (among the many possible approaches). These different
angels and perspectives will triangulate this topic while also testing new
ways of combining literary criticism with historical studies of the city,
representations of London in the visual arts and in music, or sociological
CFP for ASECS panel:
“Popular fiction after Richardsonâ€
DEADLINE: September 15th 2007
This panel scrutinizes the idea of eighteenth-century “popular fiction,â€
particularly in the wake of Samuel Richardson's groundbreaking novels. It
asks how this discursive marketplace registered the “literary†and helped
to determine what we now regard as canonical.
Call for Papers
The Science of Sensibility
Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry:
250 Years Later
Conference at the Institute of Philosophy (University of Leuven, Belgium)
17-18 December 2007
Attracting philosophers, politicians, artists as well as the educated
reader, Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, first published in 1757, was a
milestone in western thinking. This conference will take the 250th
anniversary of the Philosophical Enquiry as an occasion to reassess Burke's
prominence in the history of ideas. Situated on the threshold between early
modern philosophy and the Enlightenment, Burke's oeuvre combines reflections
on the arts, politics, history, emotions and the sciences.
In 1701, John Dennis characterized poetry as “pathetick†and “passionateâ€
“speech.†Twenty-five years later, James Thomson described his poetic
ambition to awaken “the moral sentiment†in his readers. Such statements
notwithstanding, the place of poetry in the culture of sentimentâ€"with its
powerful fusion of moral and aesthetic philosophy, sensationist psychology,
middle-class ideology, literary practice, and reformist politicsâ€"remains
opaque, in part because the revisionist scholarship of the past two decades
has tended to focus on the novel. This panel will feature papers that seek
to invigorate our understanding of the intersection between sentiment and
Twenty-minute papers are invited for consideration as part of the 'Printed
Miscellanies' panel at the forthcoming ASECS annual meeting, which takes
place at Portland, Oregon, from March 27-April 3 2008.
This panel explores the aesthetic and material aspects of
eighteenth-century printed miscellanies. Individual papers might focus on
particular miscellanies (such as those by Dryden and Tonson, Pope and
Swift, or Robert Dodsley, for instance) but all participants will be
encouraged to consider some of the following, broader questions:
Sex Objects: The Erotics of Material Culture
ASECS, 3/27-30/08, Portland OR
Travel Narratives: East and West in the Holy Land, 1660-1740
ASECS Portland Oregon - March 27-30, 2008
Literature and Contract in the Eighteenth Century
NeMLA Panel: Buffalo, NY 4/10/08 - 4/13/08
URGENT CFP
Panel: Trans-cultural Influences, Interpretations, and Encounters: The
Transatlantic Experience
Event: NEMLA 2008 Convention, Buffalo, NY, April 10th â€" 13th, 2008.
“Sentiment and Economics Across Genres†Michael Genovese, U. of Virginia,
E-mail: meg5p_at_virginia.edu
ASECS 2008: Deadline Sept. 15, 2007
"On the Move: Watching Bodies in the Eighteenth Century" (ASECS annual
conference, 27-30 Mar. 2008)
Call for Papers: “Transatlantic Ireland†(Irish Studies Caucus) American
Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Portland, Oregon March 27-30,
2008.
***CALL FOR PAPERS***
METRE MATTERS: NEW APPROACHES TO PROSODY, 1780-1914
University of Exeter: Thursday, 3 July - Saturday, 5 July 2008
An international conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies
Keynote speakers:
ISOBEL ARMSTRONG, TIM KENDALL, YOPIE PRINS, SUSAN WOLFSON
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39th Annual American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS)
Conference March 27-30, 2008
Portland, OR
Panel Title: Aufklärung in England: Theories of Subject Formation in the
Late Eighteenth-Century English Novel.
39th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Conference
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, NY
Panel Title: Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century: “He was not of an
age, but for all time†(and use)
Call for Papers
Panel on Eighteenth-Century Epistolary Forms
39th Convention, Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA)
April 10-13, 2008
Buffalo, New York
Papers are invited on any aspect of letters and letter-writing in the
literature and culture of the long eighteenth century. Of particular
interest are epistolary forms other than the novel (e.g., verse epistle,
dramatic uses of the letter, letter manuals, etc., though work on
epistolary novels will also be considered) as well as contemporary
rewritings or reimaginings of eighteenth-century epistolary works.
Send abstracts to: Cecilia Feilla at cfeilla_at_mmm.edu
Deadline: September 15, 2007
NOTES AND SHORT ESSAYS ON EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY POETRY
A special issue of notes (up to 1000 words) and short articles (up to 2000
words) is planned on “eighteenth-century poetry.†Hitherto unknown variant
readings of poetry, letters and unpublished documents about the making and
reception of poetry, as well as textual problems within eighteenth-century
poetry could be introduced in notes and short essays which should not
exceed 2000 words.
Please submit all notes and essays electronically to Sandro.Jung_at_btinternet.com
The deadline for submission is September 30 2007.
Authors interested in contributing should write to the special issue
Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies
The Burney Society invites submissions for the Hemlow Prize in Burney Studies,
named in honour of the late Joyce Hemlow, Greenshields Professor of English at
McGill University, whose biography of Frances Burney and edition of her
journals and letters are among the foundational works of eighteenth-century
literary scholarship.
The Hemlow Prize will be awarded to the best essay written by a graduate
student on any aspect of the life or writings of Frances Burney. The essay,
which can be up to 6,000 words, should make a substantial contribution to
Burney scholarship. The judges will take into consideration the essay's
Call for contributions
CFP: "The idea of Europe in the 18th century" (6/30/2007;9/20/2007-9/22/2007)
The eighteenth century is often considered as a key period in the emergence of a
broader European consciousness and the synchronous decline of older imagined
communities such as Occident and Christianity. At the end of the eighteenth
century, however, the age of "old Europe" based on dynasties, elite culture and
balance of power politics was profoundly shaken, if not destroyed, by the
French Revolution and the ensuing international instability. A heated
discursive battle over the redefinition of Europe ensued.
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submissions for a Spring/Summer 2009 special issue that will consider =20=
Shakespeare's presence in the 18th century—in book form, on the stage, in art—is overwhelming. This session will explore how artists have transformed Shakespeare's plays in painting or any of the visual arts. By April 30, 2007, please send proposals/abstracts to Chantelle MacPhee, Department of English, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey, Cayey, PR 00736. Email submissions are also welcome: englitgirl_at_yahoo.com.
UPDATE: New Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: 4/25/07
Approaches to Teaching Early African American Poetry (1700-1900) (4/15/07; 11/8/07-11/11/07)
Special Session Topic Panel: M/MLA 2007 Annual Convention, November 8-11, Cleveland, Ohio
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Societ=E9 canadienne d'=E9tudes du dix-huiti=E8me si=E8cle
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Call for Papers / Appel =E0 contribution
for a Conference to be held in / pour le Congr=E8s de
Winnipeg, Manitoba
du 17 au 20 octobre / October 2007
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sur le theme / on the theme =20
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MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION / M=C9DIAS ET COMMUNICATION
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Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (CSECS) conference on
MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION
Winnipeg, Manitoba
17 - 20 October, 2007