Romantic Conflict
(British Association for Romantic Studies)
24-27 July 2003
University of Warwick
Coventry, UK
Plenary Speakers: Isobel Armstrong, David Bromwich
Saree Makdisi, Susan Wolfson
The overall aim of the conference is to investigate sites of social,
political and interpersonal conflict and their relationship to Romantic
writing. Conflict may be taken literally (i.e. Revolution, war,
rebellion, treason) or figuratively (i.e. the clash of genres, the
battle of the sexes, the dissolution of friendship). General themes of
the conference might include: the different ways Romantic writers
construct conflict; the range of attitudes towards conflict, including
incitement, justification, complaint, pacifism, avoidance, denial; and
the ways in which the study of Romanticism depends upon notions of
conflict and discord. Is 'Romanticism' itself a site of conflict? Is
resolution possible or is the struggle always already lost? The
conference will also be an opportunity to test the viability of Romantic
models for peace and reconciliation.
Some of the specific topics to be addressed are:
 war and the justification for war
 exploration, adventure, travel ('culture clash')
 class conflict, revolution
 ideologies
 religious differences
 ecological conflict
 gender conflict ('battle of the sexes')
 friends and enemies
 literary and political rivalry
 competition
 utopias
 antagonism between writers and reviewers
 conflicts between modes of discourse - literature, philosophy,
history; poetry vs. prose
 radical aesthetics
 literary / cultural criticism as conflict
 Romanticism and Modernism
 Romantc studies as itself a site of conflict
Proposals for papers of 20 minutes are invited on these and related
topics. Please either send in an abstract of 300 words to Jacqueline
Labbe, BARS 2003, Department of English and Comparative Literary
Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK;
j.m.labbe@warwick.ac.uk, or submit an abstract online. Deadline for
abstracts: 15 October 2002
Conference Web Site:
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/English/BARS2003.htm
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