CFP Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities) (10/10/2023)

CFP–Romantic Boundaries (Special Issue of Romantic Textualities)
Tien, Yu-hung

Source: https://www.romtext.org.uk/romantic-boundaries/

Posted on 08 September 2023


This June, the BARS Early Career and Postgraduate Conference gathered researchers from around the globe to celebrate and to appreciate Romanticism and its legacies at the University of Edinburgh by exploring the theme of ‘boundaries’ within the context of Romantic-period literature and thought. The Oxford English Dictionary defines the term ‘boundary’ as: ‘That which serves to indicate the bounds or limits of anything whether material or immaterial; also the limit itself.’ Such a term seems at odds with the spirit of Romanticist thought, which has long been associated with mobility and boundlessness. Conference delegates aptly addressed the complexity of the concept through various representations of boundaries—both tangible and intangible—from a wide range of viewpoints. To continue such a diverse critical dialogue, in collaboration with Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780–1840, they plan to produce a special ‘Romantic Boundaries’ edition of the journal. To widen the scope of our scholarly conversation, not only do they welcome all the conference delegates to consider expanding their conference papers for publications, but they also invite researchers and scholars in general for submissions.

Echoing our conference theme, topics of interest may include, but are not limited to:

• Geographical and spatial boundaries; transnationalism
• Borders, liminal spaces, and boundary crossing
• Temporal boundaries
• Dialogues between genres and disciplines
• Translations and transgressions
• Lived boundaries (including those pertaining to identity, such as gender, race, or sexuality)
• Digital boundaries
• Human and nonhuman boundaries
• Boundaries and reception; public versus private writings
• Past, present, and future limits of the field of Romantic studies and its canon

Successful abstracts will suggest articles that broaden our understanding of Romantic boundaries by illuminating the elasticity and multiplicity of their meanings. For those who are interested, please submit 500-word abstracts with 5 keywords. Abstracts are due by 10 October 2023. The result will be announced by mid-November.

Essays (5000–8000 words, including footnotes) that grow out of accepted abstracts will undergo peer review and are due by 31 January 2024.

Please email submissions to Yu-hung Tien (yuhung.tien@ed.ac.uk), with a subject line (Romantic Boundaries, ‘Paper Title’, Author Name).

Papers will be published in a special issue of Romantic Textualities (Summer 2024), guest edited by Professor Li-hsin Hsu, Professor Andrew Taylor, and Yu-hung Tien.

Please note that the essay submission date and publication schedule are tentative and subject to change, depending on the reviewing progress.

CFP In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840 (9/15/2023)

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840

deadline for submissions:
September 15, 2023

full name / name of organization:
Romantic Textualities

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/25/in-other-worlds-romanticism-at-the-crossroads-a-special-issue-of-romantic

contact email:
CStampone@SMU.edu

In Other Wor(l)ds: Romanticism at the Crossroads, a special issue of Romantic Textualities: Literature and Print Culture, 1780-1840­

Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 9/15/23.

Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Altre Parole / In Other Words (2015) describes switching from one language to another as crossing from one side of a body of water to its opposite shore. Inspired by this metaphor, this special issue invites essays that examine Romanticism’s movements across oceans and seas, as well as languages, genres, and genders. This special issue seeks to reevaluate popular conceptions of Romantic aesthetics, recover authors who continue or call into question Romanticism’s continued salience, detail the circulation of texts across oceans and borders, and strike connections between authors of different countries and cultures. Joselyn Almeida, Manu Chander, Bakary Diaby, Tim Fulford, Paul Giles, Evan Gottlieb, Samantha Harvey, Nikki Hessell, Kevin Hutchings, Peter Kitson, Deanna Koretsky, Tricia Matthew, Omar Miranda, César Soto, Helen Thomas, The Bigger 6 Collective, and others have reassessed traditional conceptions of Romanticism(s) and Romantic figures by challenging hitherto limited aesthetic, cultural, and geographical borders. Rather than view Romanticism primarily as an insulated phenomenon born out of a few European countries—as has generally been the case—this edition seeks to offer transatlantic, transpacific, and even transnational Romanticisms. Taken as a whole, this special issue will stretch the bounds and time period of Romanticism, better reflecting the development of Romantic aesthetics and their manifestations and subversions across the globe.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Revisionary analyses that account for a global framework and decolonise texts, authors, and Romanticism as a field of study;
• Romantic networks connecting authors and ideas across space and time;
• Critical race theory and non-binary & genderqueer readings of underrepresented and canonical texts, art, music, performances, and oral traditions;
• BIPOC and LGBTQIA2S+ authors and artists;
• History of the book and transnational reception histories of underrepresented as well as canonical works of literature, specifically works that reached different parts of the globe by either book, newspaper, broadsides, handbills, and other print ephemera; and
• Comparative analyses connecting authors using similar forms (e.g., ballad romance), genre (e.g., Gothic), or allusions (e.g., Paradise Lost) across nations and languages.

Successful proposals will suggest articles that enrich our understanding of Romanticism by expanding its literal and metaphorical borders. Abstracts are due by August 15, 2023 and should be no longer than 600 words in length. Essays that grow out of accepted abstracts will undergo peer review and are due by January 31, 2024. Please email submissions to Christopher Stampone (CStampone@SMU.edu). Papers will be published in a special issue of Romantic Textualities(Winter 2024), guest edited by Christopher Stampone and Joel Pace.



Note: The deadline for submissions has been extended to 9/15/23.



Last updated September 1, 2023

CFP British Romanticism in 1823 (5/31/2023; PAMLA Portland 10/26-29/2023)

British Romanticism in 1823

deadline for submissions:
May 31, 2023

full name / name of organization:
L. Adam Mekler/PAMLA

contact email:
adam.mekler@morgan.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/03/03/british-romanticism-in-1823

PAMLA 2023: October 26-29, 2023
Portland, Oregon

This panel invites paper that explore the decades of the 1820s, focusing especially on the year 1823, with regards to the shifting perspectives both on and of the writers of the Romantic period. The greatest works of William Wordsworth and Samuel Coleridge, and all of the novels of Jane Austen, had been published years, if not decades earlier, while John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, and William Blake would all die by the end of the decade. Nevertheless, 1823 saw the publication of several notable works, including the second edition of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; Shelley’ second novel, Valperga; William Hazlitt’s important essay “My First Acquaintance with Poets;” Charles Lamb’s Essays of Elia; and Cantos VI-XIV of Lord Byron’s masterpiece, Don Juan. While the more canonical writers of the period offer substantial material to consider, discussions of lesser-known writers or texts of the period are also certainly encouraged.

Please submit your 250-word abstract by May 31 through the PAMLA portal: https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/




Last updated March 7, 2023

CFP Transnational Romanticism (11/15/2017)

Transnational Romanticism
https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2017/06/20/transnational-romanticism

deadline for submissions:

November 15, 2017


full name / name of organization:
Dr. Agnieszka Gutthy

contact email:
agutthy@southeastern.edu


Papers are invited for a volume on Transnational Romanticism. The possible topics may include, but are not limited to

- exile and displacement

- literary responses to various historical or cultural moments of transition or crisis

- translation as a movement of texts across cultural and national boundaries

- Goethe’s concept of Weltliteratur and its modern reinterpretations

- Romantic philosophy and nationalism

- Romantic imagination and the modern world

- social protest in Romantic drama and realist fiction

- Romanticism and popular culture

- Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and the genre of science fiction


Please send 6000 – 7000-word paper to agutthy@southeastern.edu by November 15, 2017


Last updated June 22, 2017

CFP Romanticism and Popular Culture (5/15/2017; SAMLA)

Of potential interest:

Romanticism and Popular Culture

Event: 11/03/2017 - 11/05/2017
Abstract: 05/15/2017
https://www.cfplist.com/CFP.aspx?CID=10778

Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Organization: Keats-Shelley Association of America and the South Atlantic Modern Language Association


Romanticism and Popular Culture, an affiliated session of the Keats-Shelley Association of America at the South Atlantic Modern Language Association 89th Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia, USA (3-5 Nov. 2017)

In keeping with this year’s conference theme (“High Art/Low Art: Borders and Boundaries in Popular Culture”), this panel seeks papers that address topics related to popular culture and British Romantic-era literature, although other Romanticism-related topics certainly will be considered. Sponsored by the Keats-Shelley Association of America, this affiliated session especially welcomes papers related to second-generation Romantic-era British writers and/or their literary circles, namely those addressing the lives and/or works of John Keats, Percy and Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Leigh Hunt, and William Hazlitt.

See <http://k-saa.org> for more information about the Keats-Shelley Association of America.

Please send a 250-word abstract, bio or CV (no more than ONE page), and any audio-visual requests to Ben P. Robertson, Troy University (bprobertson@troy.edu), by 15 May 2017.



Contact Email: bprobertson@troy.edu
Website: https://samla.memberclicks.net/