We are delighted to announce an international conference on eighteenth-century poetry to be held in Oxford on 7th and 8th July 2016.
Lines of Connection is organised by the Digital Miscellanies project in association with the TORCH Enlightenment Programme / Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment.
The keynote lecture will be given by Professor Catriona Seth (University of Oxford).
We are inviting proposals for 20-minute papers exploring new ways of looking at poetry from the period 1700 to 1800. While papers will be in English, we encourage proposals from researchers working on eighteenth-century poetry in any language, and in any discipline. We welcome proposals from postgraduate and early career researchers as well as established scholars. Papers on the theme of connection – between national poetic cultures, or between poetry from the eighteenth century and other periods, for example – will be especially welcome. But we encourage submissions on any topic, which may include the following:
- poetic forms and genres,
- poetry in translation,
- imitation, allusion and influence,
- the publication and circulation of poetry in print and manuscript,
- poetry and material culture,
- authorship and anonymity,
- canon formation and re-formation,
- high culture and popular culture,
- poetry in performance,
- poetry in drama, opera or music,
- eighteenth-century poetry and the digital humanities,
- periodization and the eighteenth century
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to Carly Watson (carly.watson@ell.ox.ac.uk) and Kelsey Rubin-Detlev (kelsey.rubin-detlev@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk) by 15th January