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Special Session: Souvenir Objects/Romantic Souvenirs

Approved by the conference organizers for the 2007 International Conference on Romanticism, Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, 10/18/07 – 10/21/07:

Special Session: Objections to Objects=0D=0A=0D=0AAs indicated by the =
topic of the 2007 ICR conference, Romantic Objects, objects were very =
important in the post-Enlightenment era, advances in science, technolo=
gy and psychology yielding a greater focus on material culture, includ=
ing objects like the body, goals and pursuits in this world, nationali=
sm and the like. Still, there were those who, like Blake, believed tha=
t "Corporeal Friends are Spiritual Enemies," and therefore objected to=
 what they considered to be a misplaced emphasis on objects. In their =
defense, I am soliciting papers for what might be viewed as an antithe=

International Conference on Romanticism: Romantic Objects
Oct. 18-21, 2007
Loyola University
Baltimore, MD
 
This session has been approved by the ICR conference organizers. See also:
www.loyola.edu/romanticobjects
 
Special Session: Letters, Luggage, and Other Travel Objects in Romantic Literature
 

CFP: The Gothic Body as Romantic Object (6/1/07; ICR, 10/18/07-10/21/07)
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Approved special session for the International Conference on =
Romanticism, Oct. 18-21,2007, Baltimore, MD
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Despite recent studies exploring and contesting the canonical division =
between Romanticism and the Gothic, scholars have yet to address the =
central role of the gothic body in Romantic-era texts. From early =
monsters, such as Byron's Giaour, Polidori's vampire, Keats's Lamia, =
Coleridge's Geraldine, Percy Shelley's monster in Julian and Maddalo, =
and Mary Shelley's monster in Frankenstein to the gothic monstrosity of =
Eugenia and the trope of the mad woman in Burney's Camilla and Charlotte =

**CFP: DRESS & FASHION IN LITERATURE**

We are looking for two essays to complete a manuscript under contract
for publication.

*An essay on dress/fashion in Renaissance literature.
*An essay on dress/fashion in Romantic literature.

Issues under consideration include, but are not limited to, the
following:

Workshop: The Poetics of Globalisation=20

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May 2, Centre for Contemporary Writing, University of Southampton

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The implications of the ubiquitous languages of 'globalization' for literar=
y and cultural critique are far from clear. The term is deeply ambivalent, =
suggesting both a political critique of the neo-liberal agenda and an acces=
sion to the universalizing assumptions of its corporate entities. This work=
shop offers literary critics the opportunity to assess and openly debate th=
e significance of the theoretical and political frameworks of globalization=
 for the study of literature.=20

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Specific issues to be addressed include:=20=20

Submissions are requested for a collection of essays focusing on the work of
Mary Shelley and her contemporaries. This collection is developing out of
two panels from this year's and last year's NEMLA conference, and there is a
publisher interested in possibly producing the collection.

Romantic Objects

The 2007 International Conference on Romanticism
October 18-21, 2007
Baltimore, MD

*General Call for Papers*

This year's International Conference on Romanticism invites
participants to consider the objects of Romantic study. "Romantic
objects" may include the goals of our own academic inquiry, the pursuits
(literary, philosophical, political, theological, ecological, aesthetic,
and so on) of Romantic period authors, and the material things that
provoke these goals and pursuits.

Preliminary topics for papers include, but are not limited to, the
following:

Call for Papers:
"The Atlantic in Transatlantic Romanticism" (Special Session Topic)
RMMLA Conference
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
October 4-6, 2007

The Atlantic in Transatlantic Romanticism

Papers sought examining literatures in English relating to transatlantic
Romanticism. Subjects might include (but are not limited to):
cross-cultural influences, early globalization, human rights,
colonialism, the slave trade, the environment. Imaginative responses to
the ocean and/or seagoing are also encouraged. Send 300-word abstracts
via email to Jeff Miller (millerj3_at_gonzaga.edu) or Brian Cooney
(cooney_at_gonzaga.edu).

Please Distribute
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Call for Proposals

for a collection

Women and Things: Material Culture, 1750-1950

Maureen Daly Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin , editors

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We invite proposals for essays for a collection titled Women and Things:
Material Culture, 1750-1950. This collection invites scholars to
consider women's engagement with the material world, from the most
ordinary, mundane daily practices and objects to the most extraordinary,
life-altering practices and objects, over the two-hundred-year period of
1750 to1950.=20

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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)

'BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT': CONVERSATIONS IN LITERATURE, LAW AND PHILOSOPHY
FROM THE REFORMATION TO THE PRESENT DAY
7TH - 9TH SEPTEMBER 2007
FITZWILLIAM COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
Convenors: Yota Batsaki, Subha Mukherji, Jan-Melissa Schramm

PLENARY SPEAKERS

John Bender
Peter Brooks
Leo Damrosch
Kathy Eden
Lorna Hutson
Ian Ward
Luke Wilson

Please note that the keynote speakers for the Byron and Modernity=20
conference will be Professor Jerome McGann (John Stewart Bryan=20
Professor at the University of Virginia), Professor Tilottama Rajan=20
(Canada Research Chair in Theory and English at the University of=20
Western Ontario), and Professor Christopher Ricks (Warren Professor of=20=

the Humanities at Boston University). Below is the previously posted=20
call for papers.

Submissions are invited for =93Byron and Modernity=94 an international=20=

conference, sponsored by the University of British Columbia, to be held=20=

in Vancouver at the Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites October 25-28, 2007 . =20=

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.

Suggested topics in masculinity include