Women's Poetry and the Fin de Siècle (1875-1914)
Speakers will Include Isobel Amstrong (Birkbeck College, University of London)
and Joseph Bristow (UCLA) amongst others from the US and the UK
14 June 2002
Call for Papers
Recent years have witnessed a growing and widespread
interest in the field of fin-de-siècle women poets, with
scholars starting to address the work of a vast array of
turn-of-the-century women poets, including Amy Levy, Alice
Meynell, "Michael Field", Dollie Radford, Olive Custance,
Nora Hopper, Mathilde Blind, Dora Sigerson and "Graham R.
Tomson". Significantly, literary scholars and historians
have recently begun a process of reconfiguration of the
fin-de-siècle years by focusing on key topics such as The
New Woman, Decadence, Urban life, the New Imperialism,
Aestheticism and Racial Science.
Yet, despite this groundbreaking interrogation of both
women's poetry and the fin de siècle, there has been very
little work examining fin-de-siècle women's poetry in the
light of recent debates about the New Woman, Aestheticism,
Decadence and Modernity. Birkbeck College has played an
important role in foregrounding women's poetry and in
reconfiguring debates about the New Woman in two seminal
conferences, Rethinking Women's Poetry, 1730-1930 and The
New Woman: Gendering the Fin de Siècle. This conference
continues an ongoing process of rethinking the poetic
landscape of the long nineteenth century. Indeed, it
originates in a demand to rethink the relation between
fin-de-siècle women's poetry and the literary history of
the fin de siècle. How did fin-de-siècle women's poetry
relate to New Woman literature? And to the Symbolist
Movement? How did women poets participate in Aestheticism?
What were their responses to the New Imperialism? How did
their poetics address the gender politics of the
late-Victorian period?
Papers that consider fin-de-siècle women's poetry in
relation to issues such as The New Woman, British
Aestheticism, Decadence, Poetics and Modernity are
especially sought, but papers that either address the work
of single authors or that focus on fin-de-siècle women's
poetry and social and critical concerns such as Religion,
The City, Gender, Class, Race, Mass-culture, Empire,
Socialism and Social Darwinism are also welcome.
Organisers: Ana Vadillo (Birkbeck College) and Marion Thain (The University of Birmingham).
Hosted by the Institute for English Studies in conjunction
with The Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies and
The University of Birmingham.
Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be sent by 7th January 2002 to:
Ana Vadillo, School of English and the Humanities, Birkbeck
College, University of London, Malet Street, London
WC1E 7HX, UK. E-mail: a.parejovadillo@eng.bbk.ac.uk
Marion Thain, Department of English, The University of
Birmingham. Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK.
E-mail: M.Thain.2@Bham.ac.uk
E-mail is preferred.
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Dr. Ana Vadillo
a.parejovadillo@english.bbk.ac.uk
School of English and Humanities
Birkbeck College
University of London
London WC1E 7HX
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