A Universidade de St. Andrews está recebendo resumo/artigos para uma conferência em comemoração aos 200 anos de Razão e Sensibilidade.
Location: United Kingdom
Call for Papers Date: 2011-06-30
Date Submitted: 2011-05-06
‘I am never too busy to think of S&S’, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra in April 1811. The year saw the publication of her first novel and to mark the event, we are hosting a conference that reflects upon two-hundred years of readership and opens up new interpretations of the novel. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and round tables on any aspect of the novel.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
• Social and historical context
• Reception of the novel
• Cult of Sensibility/contemporary aesthetic theory
• Literary influences
• Adaptations of the novel
• Re-writings, sequels and appropriations of the novel
• The novel’s place in the canon
Keynote speakers: Kathryn Sutherland (St Anne’s College, Oxford), Paula Byrne (Liverpool) and Jane Stabler (St Andrews).
The School of English, The Scores St. Andrews, Fife KY16 9AX
Email: 200sensibilities@gmail.com
Visit the website at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/200sensibilities
