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International Conference: Mobility in English and American Literature and Culture 1500-1900, Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2011
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| Eingestellt von: | Hans Christian Fromm |
| Eingestellt am: | 17.11.2011 |
Mobility in English and American Literature and Culture 1500-1900 International Conference JLU Giessen (Rauischholzhausen Castle), Nov. 30 – Dec. 3, 2011 Organizers: Ingo Berensmeyer (Giessen), Christoph Ehland (Paderborn) Herbert Grabes (Giessen) Sponsors: Fritz Thyssen Foundation Gießener Hochschulgesellschaft Contact: Ingo Berensmeyer Stefanie Rück Location: Rauischholzhausen Prospectus: Literary and cultural history cannot be written without concepts of mobility. This is not to assume a teleological view of modernity as a linear process but to take into account the manifold forces of mobility in individual and social contexts. Processes of modernization and patterns of mobility are connected, but the precise modes of connection still need to be explored. The goal of this conference is to discuss the ways in which concepts of mobility can be made fruitful for the study of English and American literature between 1500 and 1900: which ruptures, shifts and changes can we discern in the relation between space and movement, and how are these continuities and discontinuities expressed in literary texts? As an important factor in these cultural processes, bringing forth new ways of textual communication, we will also discuss the mobility of texts as objects in print culture. Conference programme Wed., Nov. 30 , 2011 14:30 Opening remarks (Ingo Berensmeyer, Christoph Ehland, Herbert Grabes) 15-16 Ingo Berensmeyer (Giessen): "From Pilgrimage to Picaresque: Mobility in English Literature from the Middle Ages to Early Modernity" 16-17 Andrew Hadfield (Sussex): "Mobility in the Works of Thomas Nashe" 17:30-18:30 pm Tobias Döring (München): "Magic and Mobility: Theatrical Travels in Marlowe and Shakespeare" Thurs., Dec. 1, 2011 09-10 Claire Jowitt (Nottingham): "Piracy and Mobility in English Renaissance Literature" 10-11 Jan Borm (Versailles): "John Donne and Metaphysical Poetry on the Move" 11:15-12:15 Christoph Ehland (Paderborn): "Moving Texts: Doubts, Desires and the Brave New World" 14-15 Till Kinzel (Braunschweig): "Mobility and Autobiography on Land and Sea from Samuel Pepys's Diary to Mary Lacy's The Female Shipwright" 15-16 Herbert Grabes (Giessen): "Support from Abroad: The Early English Import of Oppositional Pamphlets" 16:30-17:30 Hassan Melehy (Chapel Hill): "Literary Transfers of Sovereignty: Montaigne, Shakespeare, and Lipsius" 17:30-18:30 Stephan Kohl (Würzburg): "Spatial Practices of 18th-Century Domestic Travellers and the Idea of the Nation" Fri., Dec. 2., 2011 9-10 Pascal Fischer (Würzburg): "The Conservative Distrust of Movement in the 'French Revolution Debate'" 10-11 Birgit Neumann (Passau): "'Travels for the Heart': Practices of Mobility, Concepts of Movement and Constructions of Individuality in Sentimental Travelogues" 11:15-12:15 Oliver Scheiding (Mainz): "Migrant Fictions and the Early Story in North America" 14-15 Julia Straub (Bern): "Early American Literature and the Canon: The Mobility of Literary Value in the Eighteenth Century" 15-16 Marshall Brown (Seattle): "Austen's Immobility" 16:30-17:30 Julika Griem (Darmstadt): "Trapping Travellers: Social Mobility and Narrative Confinement in Henry James" 17:30-18:30 Stephen Prickett (Canterbury) "Exile as an Existential Condition: Kierkegaard, Conrad and Kipling" Sat., Dec. .3. 2011 9-10 Wendy Parkins (U of Otago, Dunedin): "Social Mobility and Female Agency: The Case of Jane Morris" 10-11 Philipp Erchinger (Exeter): "Moving out of Ignorance: Victorian Writing and Experimental Practice" 11:15-12:15 Dennis Berthold (Texas A&M): "Melville's Carpetbag: Nautical Transformations of the Self" 12:15-12:45 Closing discussion 14-17 Excursion to Marburg |
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