(From Gillian Dow and Sandy White at Chawton House Library and the University of Southampton.)<\/p>\n
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July 1817 saw two deaths \u2013 of Jane Austen, an English novelist with a solid but relatively modest success, and of Germaine de Sta\u00ebl, a long-standing superstar of pan-European intellectual, political and literary life. Over the two centuries since, the relative reputations of these two writers have re-aligned in ways that would have astonished their contemporaries, admirers and critics alike.<\/p>\n
This joint anniversary provides an unrivalled opportunity to bring scholars together to reflect on the connections, continuities, and contrasts between these two writers\u2019 careers both in their lifetimes and after, and to think about the waxing and waning across Europe and beyond of the literary reputations of eighteenth-century and Romantic-period women writers more generally.<\/p>\n
The organisers invite submissions of 20-minute papers. Topics might include, but are not limited to: Please send 300 word abstracts to Sandy White at the University of Southampton: sw17@soton.ac.uk<\/a> by Friday, December 2nd, 2016.<\/p>\n Organising Committee<\/em>:<\/p>\n Dr Gillian Dow (Executive Director of Chawton House Library and Associate Professor in English at the University of Southampton) [Gillian.dow@chawtonhouselibrary.org<\/a>] Further details can be found on the conference website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (From Gillian Dow and Sandy White at Chawton House Library and the University of Southampton.) — Reputations, Legacies, Futures: Jane Austen, Germaine de Sta\u00ebl and their contemporaries, 1817-2017 Chawton House… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1256,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1255\/revisions\/1256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u2022 Connections and continuities between Austen and Sta\u00ebl (including, for instance, Austen\u2019s familiarity with\/awareness of the writings of Sta\u00ebl and vice versa, or their dealings with the firm that published them both, John Murray)
\n\u2022 The reputations and reception of women writers in Europe and beyond, both in their own lifetimes and subsequently
\n\u2022 Contemporary and subsequent models for the woman writer, thinker and genius
\n\u2022 The celebration of women writers, including portraiture, biography, the fame of associated place, commemorative events
\n\u2022 The sale, import, export, translation, abridgement, extraction, illustration, adaptation of the works of women writers from their lifetimes to the present
\n\u2022 Echoes, influence, and reiterations, especially those women writers described as \u2018other\u2019 Austens and Sta\u00ebls in Europe and America
\n\u2022 The changing relative placement of these writers in relation (for instance) to notions of the centre and the periphery, the cosmopolitan and the national, the hierarchies of genre
\n\u2022 The futures of reading and teaching women\u2019s writing of the period
\n\u2022 Other anniversaries associated with women writers falling in 1817 (such as, for instance, the career-defining publication in London and Paris of Sydney Owenson\/Lady Morgan\u2019s France<\/em>).<\/p>\n
\nProfessor Catriona Seth (Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature, All Souls\u2019 College, Oxford University) [catriona.seth@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk<\/a>]
\nProfessor Nicola J Watson (Professor of English Literature, Open University) [nicola.watson@open.ac.uk<\/a>]<\/p>\n