The 2001 meeting of the North American Society for the Study of
Romanticism will take place on the University of Washington campus in
Seattle, Aug. 16-19, 2001.
Approved Special Session: PORTRAITURE AND THE ROMANTIC SUBJECT
If history painting was the genre of a ruling elite in Georgian Britain,
portraiture was the genre for a nation of shopkeepers. By giving private
bodies a public representation, portraiture supplied a visual space for
the performance of political subjecthood. Everyday citizens assumed the
dignified postures of the aristocratic family gallery in pictures that
were hung in public exhibition spaces, while the ornamental display of
portrait miniatures carried the ethereal yet culturally potent
associations of sensibility.
This session seeks to bring the rich material culture of portraiture to
bear on Romanticism, and in the process to make this enormously popular
art-form into a properly Romantic subject. Proposals on all aspects of
portraiture are welcomed, particularly those which treat the literary and
political aspects of this subject-making art. Possible topics include:
rhetorical pictorialism, ekphrastic sonnets, novelistic representations of
portraits, the "sister arts" of biography and portraiture, history and
portraiture, physiognomy, paintings of authors, and so forth.
Please email 500-word proposals or completed papers to both Christopher
Rovee (ckrovee@princeton.edu) AND Elizabeth Fay (Elizabeth.fay@umb.edu),
by next Monday, January 15.
The conference topic is "Romantic Subjects." This topic is intended to
encourage a non-exclusive focus on three areas: subjectivity, ideas and
ideologies, and subject positions. Participants may present only one
paper; consequently, if you submit to more than one special session,
please inform the session organizers. Session organizers have an earlier
decision deadline and have been asked to forward to us any proposals that
they cannot use.
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