1820: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism: A Stuart Curran Symposium
Postponed from the bicentennial year of 2020; now to be held on Zoom on October 29th, 2021
Zoom link and registration details to be shared soon – check back to k-saa.org or email ksaacomm@gmail.com
9:30 a.m. EST Introductory remarks: Neil Fraistat (Maryland), President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America
9:45-11:15 a.m. EST
On Keats’s Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems
Elizabeth Fay (University of Massachusetts), Feeling Snaky: Fantasms, Potheads, and the Object of Desire
Olivia Moy (CUNY), “Dulcísima Isabel!” “Mi adorada Fanny”: Julio Cortázar’s 1820 Keats
Karen Swann (Williams), “stubborn and volatile”: Keats’s Angelus
11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. EST
On Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound with Other Poems
Julie Camarda (Rutgers), Shelley’s “Uncommunicated Lightning”
Yohei Igarashi (Connecticut), The Calculating Principle: Indexing Shelley
William Keach (Brown), The Politics of Hope, Shelley, 1820
2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST
After 1820 : On the afterlives and reverberations of 1820
Bakary Diaby (Skidmore), After Breaking the Period
Lindsey Eckert (Florida State), Keats and Book Historical Poetics
Eric Eisner (George Mason), Recent American Poetry after Keats (and vice versa)
Emily Sun (Barnard), Isabella’s Echoes
Orrin Wang (Maryland), Keats, Shelley, and the Parallax View
4:00-4:30 EST Virtual Tour of the Houghton Library exhibition “1820: Keats, Shelley & Their World”
4:30-5:30 p.m. EST Poetry readings and discussion of Romantic legacies by Maureen McLane and Vidyan Ravinthiran