{"id":1395,"date":"2016-09-28T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1395"},"modified":"2016-09-28T10:13:34","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T10:13:34","slug":"cfp-the-shelley-conference-friday-15th-september-2017-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=1395","title":{"rendered":"CFP: The Shelley Conference, Friday 15th September 2017, London"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please see below (and the website<\/a>) for a Call for Papers for a conference on the work on Percy Bysshe Shelley and Mary Shelley, to be held in London next year.<\/p>\n

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CFP: The Shelley Conference 2017<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong>\u00a0Friday 15th\u00a0September 2017 (9.30am to 5pm, to be followed by a wine reception)<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Institute for English Studies, London<\/p>\n

Keynote speakers:<\/strong>\u00a0Prof. Nora Crook (Anglia Ruskin University), Prof. Michael O\u2019Neill (Durham University)<\/p>\n

A presentation will also be given by the editors of\u00a0The Longman Shelley<\/em>\u00a0(Kelvin Everest, Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan and Will Bowers) on progress towards completion of the edition, and future plans.<\/p>\n

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This one-day conference, held at the Institute for English Studies in central London, and supported by the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies, University of York, celebrates the writings of two major authors from the Romantic Period: Percy Bysshe Shelley (PBS) and Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (MWS).<\/p>\n

A continuing scholarly fascination with all things \u2018Shelley\u2019 is due in part to the unprecedented access we now have to their texts (in annotated scholarly editions) and manuscripts (presented in facsimile and transcript). The Shelleys\u2019 works are more readily available than ever before. Michael Rossington, when discussing the task of editing PBS, emphasises the complexity of the poet\u2019s afterlife, especially in comparison to other Romantic authors:<\/p>\n

It will have taken nearly 200 years from his death for complete scholarly editions of his oeuvre to emerge. The absence of such fundamental resources has been, and remains, to student and non-specialist alike, a cause of puzzlement, if not consternation, especially since complete works of other Romantic poets are available in more than one modern scholarly edition.[1]<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Similarly, the lack of an annual or even frequent conference dedicated to PBS (comparable to those that exist for other Romantic writers) has prompted the decision to organise this event for 2017. Excitingly it is now, in the first part of the 21st\u00a0century, that the most detailed comprehensive editions of PBS\u2019s works are in production (The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley\u00a0<\/em>ed. Donald Reiman, Neil Fraistat and Nora Crook is already well advanced, with Vol VII published soon, and\u00a0The Poems of Shelley\u00a0<\/em>ed. Kelvin Everest, G. M. Matthews, Michael Rossington and Jack Donovan is nearing completion).[2]<\/a><\/p>\n

Previous conferences at Gregynog in 1978, 1980, and 1992 and the Percy Shelley Bicentennial Conference in New York in 1992 have provided a wonderful legacy for future Shelleyan academics, and it is in the spirit of these events that we will present The Shelley Conference 2017. We include MWS in this new conference, as she also does not have her own regular academic event. However, the recent conference \u2018Beyond Frankenstein\u2019s Shadow\u2019 (Nancy, France, 2016) focused specifically on MWS, and the emphasis placed on her work at the \u2018Summer of 1816\u2019 conference (Sheffield, 2016) indicated that her role on the main stage of Romanticism is increasingly appreciated.<\/p>\n

It is for these reasons that the \u2018Shelley\u2019 of the conference title is left ambiguous. The Shelleys are increasingly seen as a collaborative literary partnership, and modern criticism reinforces the importance of reading their works in parallel. The nuances of this, however, are far from simple, and this statement does not imply there is anything like a sense of either consistent \u2018unity\u2019 or \u2018conflict\u2019 when considering the Shelleys\u2019\u00a0literary<\/em>\u00a0relationship. This is the kind of issue which will be explored at The Shelley Conference 2017.<\/p>\n

The conference organisers request abstracts of 200 words for 20-minute papers, sent to theshelleyconference@gmail.com<\/span>\u00a0before 1st\u00a0April 2017. Papers can be on any aspect of the work of PBS or MWS (or both). The conference particularly welcomes papers that consider the task of editing Shelley, and\/or examination of the manuscripts of PBS and MWS. Other topics can include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n