Call for Papers
Midlands Romantic Seminar One-Day Conference:
“The Romantic Novel, 1790-1840″
Saturday 25th June 2005
Birmingham and Midland Institute, B3
Keynote speaker: Professor Kathryn Sutherland (St Anne’s College, Oxford)
Submissions are invited for papers on any aspect of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth-century novel. Possible topics might include: the novel of sensibility, the Jacobin novel, Godwin, Mary Shelley, children’s fiction, counter-revolutionary tracts, the Gothic novel, Scott, Charlotte Smith, Maria Edgeworth, Elizabeth Ferrier, Burney, Austen, Elizabeth Hamilton, Harriet Martineau, Disraeli, Bulwer-Lytton, William Ainsworth, the Newgate Novel, the Silver-Fork Novel, the historical novel, popular fiction, early Dickens etc.
Submissions from postgraduates welcomed. Please send a 300 word abstract by 15th May 2005, to Dr Gavin Budge: gavin.budge@uce.ac.uk
CALL FOR PAPERS: “Crossing Borders: James Hogg and the Global Context of British Romanticism”
Twelfth James Hogg Society Conference
Mississippi University for Women
Columbus, Mississippi, USA
April 6-8, 2006
The twelfth James Hogg Society Conference will be held April 6-8, 2006, on the campus of Mississippi University for Women, Columbus, Mississippi.
Papers are invited on any aspect of James Hogg. The conference is open to papers on all topics related to the life and works of James Hogg, as well as Hogg’s literary connections and influence. The conference organizers would especially welcome papers that address Hogg’s publication and reception in North America, as well as papers that make connections between Hogg’s works and North American writers. Reading time should not exceed twenty minutes.
Inquiries are welcomed at any time. Proposals or abstracts should be sent by
December 15, 2005, to
Dr. Thomas Richardson
Mississippi University for Women
1100 College Street—MUW 1634
Columbus, MS 39701 USA
Phone: (662) 329-7386
Fax: (662) 329-7387
Email: trichard@muw.edu
Columbus is located in northeast Mississippi and is the birthplace of playwright Tennessee Williams. Mississippi University for Women is the first public college for women in America and includes writer Eudora Welty among its alumni. Tours of historic antebellum homes in Columbus (including Waverley Plantation) and other social events will be part of the conference. Columbus is only a 4½ -hour drive to Atlanta, New Orleans, or the Gulf Coast and, for Elvis and Blues fans, only 2½ hours to Memphis.
Dr. Sharon Alker
Assistant Professor of English & General Studies
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA
99362
