Conference Title: Treason and Transgression in the Long Eighteenth Century
Venue: University of Cambridge, UK.
Date: 7th-8th May, 2004
TREASON AND TRANSGRESSION IN THE LONG EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Postgraduate students in the Faculty of English, Cambridge University,
invite you to a two-day graduate conference on the theme of ‘Treason and
Transgression’.
Location and Date: University of Cambridge, (venue to be determined), 7-8
May 2004. Possible topics for papers and panels might include:
Trespass
Regicide and rights
Popery, parody, pornography
Thieving and borrowing
Heretics; lunatics
Travesty
Crime and Corruption
Perverse poetics; subversive aesthetics
Prof John Barrell (University of York, author of Imagining the Kings’
Death: Figurative Treason, Fantasies of Regicide, 1793-1796) has kindly
agreed to act as external observer and respondent. The conference is hosted
by the English Faculty, but is aimed at an interdisciplinary audience, and
welcomes contributions from students working in any relevant fields. All
papers will be given by students, with senior faculty members chairing
sessions of 20-minute papers. There will be a small registration charge.
Deadline for abstracts: 15th March 2004.
Abstracts and all other enquiries should be sent to Daisy Hay
(deh24@cam.ac.uk), New Hall, Cambridge CB3 0DF, UK.
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