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Past Pleasures: Nostalgia and Children's Literature

Children's Literature Discussion Circle =97 Call For Papers
South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) Conference
November 2007
Atlanta, Georgia

In order to examine children's literature through the lens of nostalgia,
possible topics include, but are not limited to, the following options:

CFP: Romantic Shakespeare. (3/1/07; MLA '07)

In conjunction with the theme of a future issue of the Shakespeare
Yearbook, "Romantic Shakespeare" the journal seeks abstracts for a
proposed Special Session at the 2007 Annual meeting of the MLA in
Chicago. Proposals are welcome that explore the editing or
interpretation of Shakespeare and early modern literature in the
Romantic period, as well as the impact of early modern literature on
the literary production of writers associated with the English
Romantic Movement.

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

Alternative Gothic (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 asks how we might consider the Gothic in forms other
than the novel.

Proposed panel for the North American Conference on British Studies
(November 9-11, 2007; San Francisco)

Material Exchanges: Britain and East Asia in the Nineteenth-Century

Papers are invited for the Mary Shelley session held every year at RMMLA
(to be in Calgary, Alberta in 2007). All submissions will be
considered, but papers addressing Mary Shelley and the Arts (music,
literature, painting, etc)will be especially welcome.

Please submit one-page abstracts along with a one-page CV or brief
biographical statement no later than 1st March, 2007; please indicate
whether AV equipment will be needed too. Accepted presenters will need
to be current in their RMMLA dues by 4/1/2007.

Romantic and Victorian Entertainments
(UPDATE: Deadline Extension)

Graduate Student Literature Conference
University of South Carolina, Columbia
 
March 23-24, 2007
 
Keynote Speaker: Barry J. Faulk, Associate Professor of English, Florida State University, author of Music Hall and Modernity: The Late-Victorian Discovery of Popular Culture

Plenary Speakers: David S. Shields, Professor of English and McClintock Professor of Southern Letters at the University of South Carolina

Anthony Jarrells, Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina

British Association for Romantic Studies Postgraduate Conference
University of Leeds, 10 March 2007

Romanticism and Heroism

Call for Papers

I want a hero: an uncommon want
  When every year and month sends forth a new one,
Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant,
  The age discovers he is not the true one;
Of such as these I should not care to vaunt,
  I'll therefore take our ancient friend Don Juan.

                              Byron, Don Juan, Canto I, (ll.1-6)

Call for papers

Byron at the Theatre

Friday-Saturday 11th-12th May 2007

Clifton Campus, Nottingham Trent University

A one-and-a-half day conference held by the English Department, Nottingham Trent University, in association with the Newstead Abbey Byron Society, and the Midlands Romantic Seminar.

"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting"

Of the Romantics, Byron was the most committed to writing plays: Manfred; Marino Faliero; Sardanapalus; The Two Foscari; Cain; The Deformed Transformed, to name but a few. We welcome papers addressing any aspect of Byron at the Theatre. Subjects could include

LITERARY TOURISM & NINETEENTH-CENTURY CULTURE

An International One-Day Conference

to be held on

Friday, 8th June 2007

Institute for English Studies, University of London, U.K.

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 26-28, 2007 . =20=

We welcome papers that explore the way Byron and Byronism have been=20
interpreted since the Romantic period, in Byron=92s reception through =
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nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the place of Byronism in=20
fashion, popular, and print culture. But we are especially interested=20=

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CFP: Romanticism and the Child as Liberator (11/17/06; NASSR (UK)7/26/07)
  

This proposed session of the 2007 combined NASSR/BARS Conference at the University of Bristol invites a study of the child in Romantic literature as a liberator or symbol of liberty. How has the child been represented as one to liberate adults, the oppressed, the Other? How has the child been symbolized in this way differently by male and female writers? The theme of the conference is "Emancipation, Liberation, Freedom." Send 300-word abstracts by e-mail to Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd-Mercy College) at: chapin.L_at_gmc.edu by November 17, 2006.

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.

UPDATE: plenary speakers announced

"Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in Britain, France, and
Beyond"

The Bibliographical Society of America invites proposals for papers to
be delivered at "Birth of the Bestseller: The 19th Century Book in
Britain, France, and Beyond," a conference on book history to be held
in New York on 29-31 March 2007.

Bristol's Robert Southey

The 2007 NASSR meeting in Robert Southey's native Bristol provides a perfect
opportunity to introduce fresh perspectives on his work and its increasing
importance to Romantic studies. Papers are invited on any aspect of
Southey's prodigious output during the Romantic era--as poet, prototype
anthropologist, historian, and political thinker. Papers addressing
Bristol's significance to Southey are especially welcome.
Send 300-word abstracts by e-mail to Elisa Beshero-Bondar (University of
Pittsburgh at Greensburg) at: ebb8_at_pitt.edu by November 17, 2006.