UPDATE: Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library, 1750-1850 (UK) (1/15/01; 7/19/01-7/22/01)

From: Michael Gamer (mgamer@dept.english.upenn.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 09 2000 - 10:13:07 EDT

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    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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