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“Home and Abroad: Transnational England, 1750-1850,” A One-Day, Summer Conference at Oxford University, Friday, 28 July 2006

Invited Speakers Include:
Fiona Stafford (Somerville College, Oxford University)
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal)

This interdisciplinary conference aims to examine discourses between England and other countries from 1750-1850 through the lens of the national and the global. ‘Home and Abroad: Transnational England’ invites discussions concerning the formation of English identity or ‘Englishness’ through its distinction from and dialogue with other nations. In addition, it asks us to consider the role, influence, and representation of foreign cultures in England. Further, it offers the opportunity to understand how distinctions between England and other nations collapsed, as multinational cultural, ideological, political, and commercial trends merged, were filtered, and dispersed.

Papers are not limited to literary investigations, but their relevance for the study of literature between 1750 and 1850 should be addressed.

We invite abstracts for 20-minute papers on any topic pertaining to “Home and Abroad: Transnational England.” Possible topics may include:

Art, Architecture, Landscape
Sculpture, Paintings, Cathedrals, Palaces, Factories, Gardening, Design,

History, Politics and Society
Reform Movements, Revolution, State Constitutions, Trade, Slavery, Colonialism, Gender, Fashion, Conduct, Education, Journalism, Media, Theaters, Museums, Migration, Travel,

Literature and Drama
Sensibility, Sentimentality, Nature, Self, Poetic Genius, Theatre, Performance, Performativity, Novels, Poetry, Literary Criticism,

Philosophy
Empiricism, Idealism, Aesthetics, Common Sense, Rationalism, Skepticism,

Religion & Theology
Religious Dissent, Anglicanism, Methodism, Pietism, Unitarianism, Calvinism, Catholicism …

Please submit proposals via email (no more than 300 words) by Friday, 26th May to both of the conference organizers:

Monika Class (Balliol College, Oxford University) monika.class@balliol.oxford.ac.uk

and

Terry F. Robinson (University of Colorado at Boulder) terry.robinson@colorado.edu

Conference Web Page: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~bodl0773/

Sponsored by the Oxford University English Faculty.

7-9 July, 2006

Centre for Research in Romanticism, Roehampton University, London, in association with The Centre for Romantic Studies, University of Bristol

Venue: Roehampton University, London

Registration forms are now available for the forthcoming Romantic
Spectacle Conference at:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/romanticstudies/events/spectacleregistration.html

Plenary papers:

Professor Iain McCalman, ‘De Loutherbourg, Beckford and the Virtual
Saturnalia of 1781′

Professor Saree Makdisi, ‘The Fading Spectacle of the Orient’

Professor John Barrell, ‘Radicalism, Visual Culture and Spectacle in the
1790s’

Professor Anne Janowitz, ‘Skygazing in London: Spectacular Nights’

To register or for further information log onto:

https://www.bris.ac.uk/romanticstudies/events/romanticspectacle.html

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J Halliwell,
Research Assistant,
Centre for Romantic Studies,
University of Bristol.
romantic-studies@bristol.ac.uk

Romantic Textualies: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840
(formerly Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text)

Call for Papers:

As of Issue 15, Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text carries the new title Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840, in order to reflect its widening remit and international presence. Romantic Textualities is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal, which appears on a biannual basis in the Summer and Winter of each year. This periodical is only as substantial as the material it contains: therefore, we more than welcome any contributions that members of the academic community might wish to make.

Romantic Textualities carries 3 types of submitted publications:

1) ARTICLES
Articles we would be most interested in publishing include those addressing Romantic literary studies with an especial slant on book history, textual and bibliographical studies, the literary marketplace and the publishing world, and so forth. Submissions for articles (5-8,000 words) should be sent to the Editor (mandal@cardiff.ac.uk).

2) REPORTS
We also supply reports on ongoing research, in the form of author studies, snapshots of research, bibliographical checklists, and so on. This material is not peer-reviewed, but provides a useful platform for scholars to disseminate information about their collaborative or individual research projects. Submissions for reports should be sent to the Editor (mandal@cardiff.ac.uk).

3) REVIEWS
As of Issue 15, the journal carries reviews of recent publications relating to Romantic literary studies. In the first instance, publishers of suitable texts or potential contributors should contact the Reviews Edito (KillickPT@cardiff.ac.uk).

Any essays supplied for prospective publication will be seriously considered, undergoing a process of assessment by members of the Romantic Textualities Advisory Board: Peter Garside (Chair, Edinburgh); Jane Aaron (Glamorgan), Stephen Behrendt (Nebraska), Emma Clery (Sheffield Hallam), Benjamin Colbert (Wolverhampton), Ed Copeland (Pomona College), Caroline Franklin (Swansea), Isobel Grundy (Alberta), David Hewitt (Aberdeen), Gillian Hughes (Stirling), Claire Lamont (Newcastle), Robert Miles (Stirling), Rainer Schoewerling (Paderborn), Christopher Skelton-Foord (Durham), Kathryn Sutherland (Oxford).

You can see the latest issue of Romantic Textualities (no. 15, Winter 2005) online by visiting http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/romtext.
Anthony Mandal (Editor)

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Dr A A Mandal ( mandal@cardiff.ac.uk )

Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, Cardiff School of
English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University, Humanities
Building, Colum Drive, Cardiff CF10 3EU (http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/ceir)

‘Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text’ [ISSN 1471-5988]
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