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Volume 40
Deep Time, Slow Time, Fast Time
Abstracts due by June 1, 2018 to mtwill@iup.edu
Essays due by September 1, 2018 to mtwill@iup.edu
Call for Papers on Robert Frost
Modern Language Association Convention, Chicago, January 3-6, 2019
Sponsor: The Robert Frost Society
Contact: Grzegorz Kosc, President of Robert Frost Society, grzegorz.kosc@uw.edu.pl
Deadline for Proposals: April 7, 2018; length: 300-350 words
Session: “New Trends in Robert Frost Criticism”
From Amy Heckerling’s 1995 film Clueless to Seth Graham-Smith’s 2016 novel, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (and its many adaptations),and from Sherri Browning Erwin’s 2011 novel Grave Expectations to Thomas Vinterberg’s 2015 film Far from the Madding Crowd, the proliferation of adaptations of nineteenth century texts does not look to abate soon, and scholars have been taking notice. Adaptation offers a new way to consume both nineteenth century culture and canonical texts. We are seeking submissions of papers exploring adaptations of Nineteenth Century literature in new genres and/or mediums. Abstracts should be no more than 300 words.
*DICKENS DAY*
Saturday 20th October 2018, Senate House, London
CFP: Dickens, Families and Communities
MMLA 2018: November 15-18 in Kansas City
Special Session Title: Consuming Masculinities
CFP: Substance Use and Abuse in the Long Nineteenth Century
13th – 14th September 2018
Edge Hill University
Speakers:
Professor Susan Zieger, University of California Riverside
Dr Noelle Plack, Newman University
Dr Douglas Small, University of Glasgow
‘The body (follow me closely here) lies at the mercy of the most omnipotent of all potentates—the Chemist.’
Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859)
CALL FOR PAPERS 2018
ENGLISH NINETEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE SESSION
Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association
Conference Dates: October 4-6, 2018
Cheyenne, WY
Historians have long recognized the central relationship between property ownership and political participation in Britain. As many have acknowledged, throughout the nineteenth century, men’s ability to vote was based on fulfilling a property qualification; even women’s enfranchisement in 1918 still carried property requirements.
Colonialism and its Narratives: rethinking the colonial archive in Australia
The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne: 10-11 December 2018
Call for papers
The Review of English Studies is now inviting entries for its 2018 Essay Prize. The RES Essay Prize aims to encourage scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. The essay can be on any topic of English literature or the English language from the earliest period to the present.
The winner will receive:
Other entries of sufficient quality will also be considered for publication in RES.