UPDATE: VICTORIAN MODERNITIES
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CALL FOR PAPERS EXTENDED TO 30 NOVEMBER 2003
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University of Reading, UK, Saturday 1 May 2004
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Plenary speaker: ROBERT MIGHALL=20
Author of 'A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History's =
Nightmares'
Further speakers to be announced.
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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:
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Science, technology and medicine; innovations in form and genre; nation =
and empire; sexuality and gender; popular culture and consumption; =
contemporary representations of the Victorians.
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Interdisciplinary papers will be welcomed.
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Please send 300-word abstracts for papers of approximately 20 minutes' =
duration to c.l.spooner@reading.ac.uk (Word attachment or in the main =
body of the email). Those who have already submitted abstracts for the =
earlier deadline will be contacted in November.
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