International Conference on (Neo)Victorian studies

Е-мейл Оргкомитета: neo-victorian.studies@lcir.co.uk

Организаторы: London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research

The event will focus on building and strengthening the dialogue with the past, extending it beyond Queen Victoria's 63 years of reign to the 21st-century aspects of British identity in terms of national loyalty and individual relevance.

Topics include but are not limited to several core issues:

• Victorian principles and practices - continuity and disruption
• the Industrial Revolution and individual freedom
• the Victorian novel: adaptations and variations
• the Dickensian formula of neo-realism
• the Victorian Romance
• Victorian poetic emotions
• Victorian anxieties and insecurities
• the Victorian Debate: civil society and gender justice
• women of distinction: reformers, activists, campaigners, environmentalists and Educationalists in the Victorian era and after
• the legacy of Queen Victoria: between potent imperialism and postcolonial nostalgia
• the Neo-Victorian ethos: re-visiting Victorian and Edwardian values in the new Millennium
• Victoriographies and 21st-century reinterpretations
• (Neo)Victorian philosophies: from Utilitarianism to Steampunk
• (Neo)Victorian science, technology and religion: idealism and wisdom
• morals and morality: affections, devotions and abjections
• (Neo)Victorian poetry: science and sensibility
• decadent generations: from Oscar Wilde and Algernon Swinburne to Will Self and Joe Stretch
• public and private realms: fashion, design and architecture
• patterns of pastimes and entertainment: the public house, the theatre, the music hall, The circus
• Victorian and Neo-Victorian representations in the arts
• (Neo)Victorianism in cinema and television
• Victorian and Neo-Victorian visions of London
• Registration fee – 100 GBP

Веб-сайт конференции: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2020/01/03/international-conference-on-neovictorian-studies