Gronigen and Sheffield Hallam Universitites: 19-22 July, 2001
Print Culture in the Age of the Circulating Library: 1750-1850
Speakers confirmed: Isobel Armstrong, Peter Garside, Jane Moore, James Raven,
Clifford Siskin, Christopher Skelton-Foord, Wil Verhoeven
The title of the conference highlights one key aspect of the material culture
of print - circulating libraries - as a means of raising broad questions about
the relationship between writing and changes in production, dissemination, and
reception. Other questions that might be addressed: How does British print
culture in this period compare with developments in continental Europe, America
and the colonies? How can print culture be related to the concept of the public
sphere? How do dissenting publics negotiate the marketplace? Papers dealing
with the pre-history or late history of the circulating library are also
welcome.
Suggested topics include: the history of the circulating library; publishers'
catalogues and advertising; 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 trans-Atlantic book trade; the
Dissenting Academies; print centres e.g. London, Philadelphia, Dublin,
Edinburgh, Paris; literature and moral panics; gender and reading; gender and
the literary marketplace; 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;
the Minerva Press and popular publishing; the underground press
Abstracts of approximately 200 words should be sent to Dr. Angela Wright,
English Subject Group, Sheffield Hallam University, 32 Collegiate Crescent,
Sheffield S10 2BP, United Kingdom. email: corvey@shu.ac.uk. Papers will
generally be 20 minutes long. Suggestions for panels welcome. THe revised
closing date for proposals is 31 January, 2001.
For further information see http://www.shu.ac.uk/corvey/news
Dr. Angela Wright
Corvey Project
English Department
School of Cultural Studies
Sheffield Hallam University
Collegiate Campus
Sheffield S10 2BP
Email: Angela.Wright@shu.ac.uk
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