One-Day Symposium Saturday 9th April 2016

Romanticism Romanticism on Edge

The traditional boundaries ofRomanticism - six male poets; thedefinite articles of Romantic image,imagination and ideology; an implicitfocus on Englishness - have beencomprehensively contested totransform the discipline into the studyof Romanticisms, including novels,plays, polemic, periodicals and printculture alongside a widening canon ofpoetry; questioning the ideology of theRomantic Ideology; and expandingborders spatially, to include FourNations, archipelagic, Europe-wide,transatlantic and postcolonialapproaches, and temporally, beyondthe 1790s and early nineteenth centuryto imagine a Romantic century runningfrom ca. 1750-1850.

This one-day symposium, hosted byRomanticism @ Edge Hill University,asks: where are the edges ofRomanticism now? How do we definethe boundaries of the discipline today?What is happening at the edges andborders of Romanticism, whether thatbe in the margins of the page;inscribed on the body, at nervous,physical or psychological limits;regionally - broadly defined - awayfrom the metropolitan centre; oraesthetically, at the avant garde?

Proposals for individual papers, panelsof 3 speakers and a chair, orinnovative presentation formats, are invited on the following topics(although they are certainly not limitedto them):

- Romanticism and changing conceptions of canonicity, spatiality and/or temporality- shifting definitions of genre and generic boundaries- Romanticism on the edges of the page- the nervous Romantic body- regional, archipelagic, transatlantic, or postcolonial Romanticisms and their borders- Romanticism and the avant garde- the limits of Romanticism

Please submit abstracts of 250 wordsfor individual papers, or panelproposals/innovative presentationformats of 500 words (including a briefintroduction and details of eachpaper), along with a short biography of presenters, to:Andrew.McInnes@edgehill.ac.ukby 29th February 2016.

There is an opportunity for selectedpapers from the symposium to be revised for a special edition of Romanticism.

Edgy Romanticism | Romanticism on Edge Call For Papers, for a one-day symposium on Saturday 9th April 2016

Keynote Speakers:Prof. Nick Groom, University of ExeterDr. Susan Civale, Canterbury Christ Church University