eighteenth century

Illustrated Texts. From the medieval illuminated manuscript to the postmodern graphic novel, text and image have enjoyed a close partnership. This session encourages papers exploring the multifaceted and complex means by which illustrations perform interpretive work in supporting, informing, challenging, or undermining textual claims. Alternatively, papers could interpret "illustrated text" broadly and consider the process of "reading” images, say, in medieval Books of Days, a cathedral's sculptural program, William Hogarth's series, cartoons or advertisements, video games, or the tattooed words comprising Shelley Jackson's Skin.

Please note that the CFP deadline for this conference has been extended
to March 31st 2007.

Call for Papers

Call for Papers (extended deadline):
"Leisure and the making of knowledge in 18th-century Europe"
31 October – 2 November 2007, University of Hamburg, Germany
http://www.sign-lang.uni-hamburg.de/fb07/lits/AGWL.html

"Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were
they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles."
Samuel Johnson "Rambler" 177 (November 26, 1751)

UPDATE: The conference is to be held in *2008*. The email subject line
was previously incorrect. I apologize for the confusion.

The Novel and its Borders

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
 8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders
will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical,
from the 18th to the 21st century.

"The Novel and its Borders"

3 day Conference organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen
8-10 July 2008
www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or
cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social
phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The
conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all
its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century.

Plenary speakers: Malcolm Bowie, Jonathan Lamb, Terry Castle

Panel topics will include the following:

CFP for the 2007 Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference to be held October 25-28, 2007 at Dartmouth College.
The conference theme is "Transatlantic Destinies: Connections and
Disconnections across the Atlantic Seaboard in the Eighteenth Century."

_Traveling Songs: Lyric in the Transatlantic Eighteenth Century_

CFP for the 2007 Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century
Studies Conference to be held October 25-28, 2007 at
Dartmouth College.
The conference theme is "Transatlantic Destinies:
Connections and
Disconnections across the Atlantic Seaboard in the
Eighteenth Century."

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Transatlantic Periodicals and Cultural Self-Definition

CFP: Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature (3/16/07;
SCMLA 11/1/07-11/3/07)

Seeking papers for the Regular Session on Restoration and
Eighteenth-Century British Literature for the 2006 South Central MLA
Conference being held in Memphis in November 2007. Papers may address
any issues and genres from the period. Literary, Cultural and
Theoretical approaches welcome. Please send and electronic copy of a
300-word abstract to Ed Cameron at cameroned_at_panam.edu
<mailto:cameroned_at_panam.edu> by March 16, 2007.=20

CFP: Finance and Gender in 17th- & 18th-Century England (2/14/07,
11/09/07-11/11/07)

North American Conference for British Studies (NACBS)
2007 Annual Meeting
Held in conjunction with the Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
(PCCBS)
San Francisco, CA
Friday, November 9th – Sunday, November 11th

CFP: From Ettrick to Empire: New Perspectives in James Hogg Studies,
University of Stirling, 7-9 August 2007. Deadline 30 April 2007

CALL FOR PAPERS
FROM ETTRICK to EMPIRE: NEW PERSPECTIVES IN JAMES HOGG STUDIES
Conference hosted by the Department of English Studies, University of
Stirling, 7-9 August 2007

Plenary Address: Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley)

61st Annual Convention of the Rocky Mountain Modern Language
Association
October 4-6, 2007, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Website: rmmla.
wsu.edu

Call for papers
English Eighteenth-Century Literature Session
We welcome submission of proposals for individual papers that consider,
but are not limited to, the following issues:

Fiction
Drama
Poetry
Non-fiction in all its forms
Letters and journals
Colonialism,
Abolitionism and Slavery (particularly welcomed)
Gender and Sexuality
The private and public sphere
Cultural spaces
The country and the city
The publishing industry

Call for Papers: "Literature & Fashion" Panel
RMMLA Conference, Calgary Alberta, October 4-6, 2007.
 
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The focus of the 2007 RMMLA panel on "Literature & Fashion" is open regarding genre and period; however, we are specifically interested in papers that explore the "materiality" of clothing in shaping the context of identity and in shaping the practices that continually [trans]form identity--or, adversely, impede its transformation or essentialize it--for either/both wearer and observer.
 
* performance (in any of its many [dis]guises)

Popular Women's Fiction in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association=20

Calgary, Alberta=20

4-6 October 2007

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This special session invites papers on any aspect of popular women's =
fiction-American, British, or Canadian-of the eighteenth and nineteenth =
centuries. Abstracts and papers should be in English.

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Send 1-page abstracts by email to jvoss2_at_utk.edu or by mail to Julie =
R. Voss, Department of English, 301 McClung Tower, University of =
Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-0430. Deadline for abstracts is 1 March =
2007.

Call for Papers

The Northern Plains Conference on Earlier British Literature welcomes
paper submissions on all aspects of British literature from the
beginnings to the Eighteenth Century.
This year's conference will be held at Minnesota State University
Moorhead, 20-21 April 2007.

Questions and paper abstracts (20-minute reading time) may be directed
to Dr. Stephen Hamrick, hamrick_at_mnstate.edu <mailto:hamrick_at_mnstate.edu>

Deadline for submissions: 9 March 2007