I invite proposals for a special panel at the annual meeting of the North
American Society for the Study of Romancism (NASSR)---please note that
this session HAS been approved. The conference will be held August 16-19,
2001 in Seattle.
Copyright and Reader's Rights in the Romantic Century, 1750-1850
I am interested in proposals that examine how the 18th- and 19th-century
changes in Britain's copyright law affected the material conditions and
legal status of readers and reading in the period. The landmark decision
in the 1774 case of Donaldson v. Becket, which established a public domain
for the first time in Britain's history, is one possible point of
departure---but please feel free to send proposals on writers' reaction to
or participation in copyright disputes, readers' activity in the wake of
copyright changes, public agitation about copyright laws, etc. I intend
for this panel to cast a wide net, drawing together literary scholars,
historians, and legal theorists to discuss how changes in copyright
created new challenges and possibilities for readerly subjectivity in the
Romantic century.
Please send queries or 500-word proposals by January 10, 2001, either to
my email address < bgunzenhauser@mail.millikin.edu > or via US post to the
address below:
Bonnie Gunzenhauser
English Department
Millikin University
1184 West Main Street
Decatur, IL 62522
For additional information about the 2001 NASSR meeting, please visit the
conference website at http://depts.washington.edu/nassr01/
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