CFP: Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library, 1750-1850 (UK) (1/15/01; 7/26/01-7/29/01)

From: Michael Gamer (mgamer@dept.english.upenn.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 03 2000 - 10:51:54 EDT

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    Groningen and Sheffield Hallam Universities:
    26-29 July 2001

    Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library,
    1750-1850

    Call for Papers

    Following Scenes of Writing, 1750-1850 (SHU with the University of Wales,
    Cardiff and Swansea) and The Romantic-era Novel (SHU with the University of
    Groningen), Sheffield Hallam and Groningen announce a call for papers for a
    third conference on print culture. We invite papers on any aspect of print
    culture during the eighteenth and/or nineteenth centuries, although special
    consideration may given to the following themes:

     the history of the circulating library publishers catalogues and the
    literary marketplace the history of the book the private sphere and the novel
     the literary public sphere counterpublics nationalism and the public
    sphere politics in the republic of letters the transAtlantic book trade the
    Dissenting academies the rival print centres of Philadelphia/ Dublin/
    London/Edinburgh literature and moral panics gender and reading libraries:
    orders and systems the remasculinisation of the novel periodical reviewing:
    the institution of literature authorship and anonymity translation, pirating
    and forgery chap books and blue books

    Abstract of approximately 500 words should be sent to Prof. Robert Miles,
    English Subject Group, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield S10 2BP; email
    r.d.miles@shu.ac.uk. Papers will generally be 20 minutes long. Suggestions for
    panels welcome. The closing date for proposals is 15 January 2001.

    Sheffield Hallam University, 26-29 July 2001

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