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THE WORDSWORTH-COLERIDGE ASSOCIATION 2004

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is sponsoring two sessions at the 2004 meeting of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia, and a lunch with the generous assistance of Pickering and Chatto Publishers.

LUNCH
Cash bar at 11:30 a.m., banquet at 12:00 noon to 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, December 28 in Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant, 1201 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. This lunch is open to members and non-members of the Association and the MLA. A vegetarian alternative is available. For reservations, send $25.00 (or $35.00 in Canadian currency), payable to The Wordsworth Circle, by December 10 to Marilyn Gaull, Department of English, New York University, 19 University Place, Room 536, New York, NY 10003. For further information, email: mg49@nyu.edu
ROMANTIC LITERATURE AND THE SCIENCES

Session I: Wednesday, December 29
12:00 noon-1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.
Presiding: James C. McKusick, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

“Radical Romanticism and the Science of Life,” Sharon Ruston,
University of Wales, Bangor

“Dissent and Ontological Space in Literature and Science,”
Stuart Peterfreund, Northeastern University

“Wordsworthian Science in the 1870s,” Robert M. Ryan,
Rutgers University, Camden

“Berkeley, Blake, Bohr, and Beyond,” Mark Lussier, Arizona State
University
Session II: Thursday, December 30
1:45-3:00 p.m., 411-412, Philadelphia Marriott
Presiding: Alan Richardson, Boston College

“Romanticism and the Sciences of Perversion,” Richard C. Sha,
American University

“The Romantic Cow: Animals as Technology,” Ron Broglio,
Georgia Institute of Technology

“Shelley and the Poetics of Glaciers,” Eric Glenn Wilson, Wake Forest
University

Respondent: Marilyn S. Gaull, New York University

NINES Workshop in Digital Scholarship

This is to announce a week-long workshop for scholars undertaking digital projects in nineteenth-century British and American literary and cultural studies. The workshop will be held at the University of Virginia, 18-22 July 2005, and will provide a practical setting where scholars can work at the development of their individual projects with other scholars who have shared interests, goals, and problems to be addressed. The theoretical, technical, administrative, and institutional issues connected to the development of digital scholarly work will focus the workshop’s activities, which will be organized around and driven by the needs of the specific projects themselves.

The workshops will be run by faculty and staff at U. of Virginia involved with the NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship) and ARP (Applied Research in Patacriticism) projects.

Additional information is available at
http://www.nines.org.

Everyone accepted into the workshop will have their lodging, breakfasts, and lunches provided during the period of the workshop. There will be a workshop fee of $350.

HOW TO APPLY
Applications should not exceed two single spaced pages. They should be headed with a project title and a one-sentence description of the project. They should include as well a developed project description that addresses each of the following matters:

the scholarly rationale for the project;
the technical and theoretical problems that face the project and that can be addressed in the NINES workshop;
the expected duration of the project, its phases, and some description of the current state of work;
the digital technology used or needed by the project;
and the technical support available to the scholar at his/her home institution.

Send applications by January 15th to:
workshops@nines.org

FUNDING SUPPORT
Applicants are expected to secure financial support from their home institutions. For scholars in need, some financial support (for travel and workshop fees) is available. For applicants requesting financial aid, a separate document (not to exceed one page single-spaced) should accompany the workshop application explaining why aid is needed.

We’ve been asked to post a reminder that the November 1, 2004 deadline is coming up for applications for Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants from the Keats-Shelley Association of America. For more details, see this previous posting.

SJ

Charles E. Robinson has just brought to our attention an important new Website entitled “British Fiction, 1800–1829: A Database of Production, Circulation, and Reception.”

Produced in Cardiff University’s Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, the site “allows users to examine bibliographical records of 2,272 works of fiction written by approximately 900 authors, along with a large number of contemporary materials (including anecdotal records, circulating-library catalogues, newspaper advertisements, reviews, and subscription lists).”

You can find the British Fiction Website at http://www.british-fiction.cf.ac.uk/

NF

The Byron Society of America is pleased to announce two new Websites: one for the Byron Society of America; and the other for the Byron Society Collection at the University of Delaware.

Please go to http://www.english.udel.edu/byron/ where you will find a splash page or gateway to both sites, from each of which you can easily negotiate to the other.

In the Byron Society Website, you will encounter such things as membership benefits and forms, a history of recent Byron papers at the MLA, a list of the first five Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lectures (with McGann’s lecture available in full text and with others to follow, including the wonderful lecture that Romulus Linney delivered this past Friday), and application forms for travel grants for graduate students.

In the Collection website, you will encounter Byron images and text that will lead you to such things as a donor page, a yet-to-be-developed book-sale page, and a catalogue of many of the items in the Collection, including books, booklets, busts, conference proceedings, engravings, exhibition catalogues, lithographs, manuscripts, sale catalogues, and much else.

We hope that you will use, enjoy, and learn from these websites, both of which will be further developed over the next few months.

Charles E. Robinson, Executive Director
Byron Society of America