The deadline has now been fixed at 12/31/02. The amended cfp is as
follows:
INSTITUTE OF ENGLISH STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ADVANCED STUDY
UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
In association with
The School of Humanities & Social Studies, University of Glamorgan
GISSING & THE CITY: The Centenary Conference
24/25 July 2003
Call for Papers
This conference will focus on the work and cultural significance of the
novelist George Gissing, the centenary of whose death occurs in 2003.
Gissing's work constitutes a unique achievement. It opens up many ways to
investigate the cultural and intellectual context of the late Victorian
City. The conference will seek in particular to bring together
perspectives from literary and urban studies.
The organisers especially invite papers that will explore such topics as
the New Woman, and women in the city ; art in Gissing's London; the
continental context of Gissing's work; and Victorian ideas about the East
End.
There will also be opportunities in workshops to consider the specifics
of Gissing's novels of slum life and of working-class life (most notably
The Nether World, Demos, Workers in The Dawn, Thyrza, The Whirlpool, and
The Unclassed) , of the development of 'mass society', of literary life
and its rewards, and of education (New Grub Street), and Gissing's views
of women's rights (The Odd Women; In The Year of Jubilee)
Gissing & The City will especially be concerned with the cultural and
intellectual context of Gissing's work, and of his contribution to our
understanding of the life of the Victorian city in its many aspects.
Proposals should be sent by December 31 2002 to Professor John Spiers
(Conference Organiser) at the following e-mailaddress:
106247.2151@xcompuserve.com
Advisory Group: Professor Warwick Gould (Institute of English Studies),
Professor Michael Connolly (University of Glamorgan), Dr. Michael Baron
(Birkbeck College), Dr. Sally Ledger (Birkbeck College), Professor Pierre
Coustillas (University of Lille), Professor Bouwe Postmus (University of
Amsterdam).
Conference Venue and Enquiries: Institute of English Studies, School of
Advanced Study, Senate House (3rd Floor), Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
(No smoking building)
Tel: 020 7862 8675, Fax: 020 7862 8672, email: ies@sas.ac.uk,
web: www.sas.ac.uk/ies
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