"The coexistence of a traveled brain and an untravelled heart, is what few
people can understand˛ Bayard Taylor, 1859.
Call for papers for a proposed panel on Bayard Taylor at
the 2004 Conference of the International Society for Travel Writing (ISTW)
to be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel and Conference Center in downtown
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 21-24. 2004. Conference details and online
registration available at www.english.uwosh.edu/ISTW.
By sheer volume of production and his notoriety among his contemporaries,
Bayard Taylor was one of the most celebrated literary figures of the
mid-nineteenth century. He was a literary prodigy, expending his energies in
seventeen volumes of occasional and narrative verse, four novels, eight
critical works and translations of German classics, nineteen travel
narratives, innumerable magazine essays, short stories, and reviews, and
thousands upon thousands of letters to friends, admirers, hostile reviewers,
chance acquaintances, and intimate male companions‹this last not being much
discussed till years after his death. His extraordinary success on the
public lecture circuit made him one of the best-known men of his day, and
when combined with the financial success of most of his printed works, his
eminence as an American man of letters was impossible to deny. His
diplomatic career enhanced his reputation and influence as an interlocutor
of foreign places and peoples to an American audience and included service
as a writer for the Perry Expedition to Japan, as a charge dą affaires to
Russia during the Civil War, and ambassador to Germany in 1878.
Topics to be considered include but are not limited to
* Taylor's representations of Islam and Islamic countries;
* Travel motifs and the influence of travel in Taylor's poetry and novels;
* the construction of race in Taylor's travel works;
* Taylor as exemplar or outlier in geneaologies of U.S. Imperialism;
* Visual representations of Taylor in foreign dress;
* Taylor in the company of other 19th c. American travelers;
* Egalitarian travel and the democratization of culture in the Jacksonian
era.
Please forward 300 word abstracts, including title, professional
affiliation, addresses (especially e-mail), phone number, by May 25, 2004.
Electronic submissions are encouraged.
Submissions to
Liam Corley
3363 Utah Street
Riverside, CA 92507
CorleyL@citrus.ucr.edu
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