CFP: Victorian Modernities (UK) (11/1/03; 5/1/04)

From: Catherine Spooner (c.l.spooner@reading.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 11:07:22 EDT


CALL FOR PAPERS

VICTORIAN MODERNITIES

University of Reading, UK, Saturday 1 May 2004

This conference seeks to explore the modernity of the Victorians, =
tracing the emergence of twentieth- and twenty-first century =
sensibilities through the literature and culture of the nineteenth =
century. All relevant topics will be considered but we particularly wish =
to encourage papers on the following:

Science, technology and medicine; innovations in form and genre; nation =
and empire; sexuality and gender; popular culture and consumption; =
contemporary representations of the Victorians.

Interdisciplinary papers will be welcomed.

Please send abstracts of approximately 300 words by 1 November 2003 to =
c.l.spooner@reading.ac.uk (Word attachment or in the main body of the =
email). Alternatively post your abstract to:

Dr. C. Spooner
School of English and American Literature,
University of Reading,
Whiteknights,
Reading,
Berkshire RG6 6AA,
United Kingdom.

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