CORRECTION: Date for Sheffield/Gronigen
Groningen and Sheffield Hallam Universities: 19-22 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, 19-22 July 2001
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