The deadline for the following call for papers is September 30, 2002, as
mentioned in the subject line, but not the text of the message.
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In a recent article entitled "A Transatlantic Century," William Keach argues
that "the grounds on which we claim the continuing relevance and coherence
of a 'romantic century' need to be transatlantic" (European Romantic Review
11 [Winter 2000]: 31). The necessity for an Anglo-American perspective on
Romanticism is further elucidated by Richard Gravil in his book Romantic
Dialogues (Macmillan/St. Martin's, 2000):
Any study of Cooper, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Whitman,
or Dickinson, that contents itself with a passing nod to English
Romanticism...is both misleading and self deluding. Blake, Wordsworth,
Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats, shifted the English literary frontier too
profoundly for that. Equally, however, any study of English Romanticism that
ignores the centrality of 'America' to romanticism's self definition...is
offering a bowdlerized literary history. (p. xx)
For a colloquium at the American Comparative Literature Association meeting,
we seek papers that address transatlantic crossings and connections during
Keach's proposed long Romantic century (1750-1865).
This colloquium will consist of a series of several panels. We welcome all
approaches and topics in this area including, but not limited to, the
following:
--the Romanticism of the American Renaissance and its concomitant anxiety of
British influence
--the cultural history of what Paul Gilroy has termed the "Black Atlantic"
--Romantic transvaluations of nature
--transformations of individual and national identity during transatlantic
crossings
--the reception history of the hundreds of thousands of "pirated" American
editions of British Romantics
--Transatlantic Women's Rights & Writing
--Romanticism and Empire: the postcolonial transatlantic
--British and American representation of Native Americans and Native voices
--Industrialization, Class Conflict, Utopianism and the transatlantic
--Queer Romanticism and sexuality in works on either side of the Atlantic
--comparative approaches treating Romanticism in Ireland, Europe and the
Americas (Canada, US, Mexico, South America)
ACLA 2003 <http://www.csusm.edu/acla2003> will be held at Cal State San
Marcos <http://www.csusm.edu> in North San Diego County, April 4-6, 2003.
In keeping with San Diego's prominence as a global crossroads for language,
culture, and economic exchange, the theme of this year's meeting is
"Crossing Over" and the meeting will focus on the condition and process of
crossing as a form of mobility, transition, transformation, experience, or
exchange. Interpretations of this theme include, but are not limited to:
borders and boundaries, technologies of reproduction, identity politics,
disciplinarity and representation. For more information please see the ACLA
call for papers <http://lynx.csusm.edu/acla2003/acla_cfp.asp> . The ACLA
conference is a multi-disciplinary gathering that last year included over
600 participants from 27 countries. Papers and seminars from across the
humanities and sciences are welcome for consideration.
Please submit a 1-2 page abstract and a cv to:
Lance Newman
Literature and Writing Studies
CSUSM
333 S. Twin Oaks Valley Road
San Marcos, CA 92024-0001
Email proposals to lnewman@csusm.edu <mailto:lnewman@csusm.edu>
Fax: 760-750-4111
Panel Organizers:
Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Wilfrid Laurier University
Lance Newman, California State University, San Marcos
Joel Pace, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
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