International Conference on (Neo)Victorian studies
Страна: Великобритания
Город: Birkbeck UK
Тезисы до: 10.03.2020
Даты: 04.07.20 — 04.07.20
Область наук: Исторические и археология;
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