{"id":2393,"date":"2019-06-03T07:24:58","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2393"},"modified":"2019-06-03T07:29:19","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T07:29:19","slug":"call-for-papers-the-liberal-revolutions-of-1820-and-their-impact-on-literary-culture-university-of-minho-braga-june-29th-30th-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=2393","title":{"rendered":"Call for Papers: The Liberal Revolutions of 1820 and their Impact on Literary Culture, University of Minho, Braga, June 29th-30th 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Liberal Revolutions of 1820 <\/i>and their Impact on Literary Culture<\/i><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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University of Minho, Braga | CEHUM<\/b><\/h3>\n

June 29 and 30, 2020<\/b><\/h3>\n

Organised by the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Humanistic Studies, in association with the Anglo-Hispanic Horizons Network (AHH)<\/em><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n

Taking advantage of the bicentenary celebrations of the liberal revolutions that occurred in southern Europe (Portugal, Spain, Italy and Greece) around 1820, but with repercussions in other regions and cultures, this international conference aims to constitute a forum of discussion around the impact that these revolutions had on the literary culture of several countries. Driven by the republican ideals of the French and American Revolutions and by the various independence and nationalist movements, the liberal and constitutionalist wave that swept across several European nations (and their respective colonies) in the first decades of the nineteenth century aimed to completely eradicate the absolutism and feudalism that still prevailed within these monarchist nations, at the end of the Napoleonic invasions. Thus, we are interested in analysing the impact that these movements and striking events had on the literary culture of the nineteenth century, particularly in the works that were then produced in several countries; but we are also interested in exploring the decisive role that many writers (in several languages), some of whom in exile, had in these same movements and events. The ultimate goal of the conference will be to find, in this convergence of different cultures in transition, common literary currents or traditions of a strongly liberal political nature.<\/p>\n

In the context of this political liberalism and its literary culture, the prevalence of the British constitutional tradition and its republican adaptation by the American Revolution have been singled out as the main motives for the democratic revolutions that took place in the Atlantic world. Nevertheless, the Iberian traditions of freedom \u2013 as well as the literature that sustains them \u2013 are usually forgotten in this context. Most notably, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820 is strangely absent from many existing historical and literary accounts. However, if we can say that the position of Portugal in this Atlantic context at the beginning of the nineteenth century was central, we can also say that this context is the main explanatory key to understand the motives of the Portuguese Revolution of 1820. From historical and literary perspectives alike, this can be seen as a process of independence, as the abolition of the Old Regime, as the constitution of freedom, and as the foundation of a Portuguese liberal constitutional tradition. But, also, as a response to the extraordinary international challenges that were imposed on Portugal’s independence \u2013 by countries such as France, Great Britain, Spain and Brazil. In short, the Portuguese Revolution of 1820, whose main objective was the founding of a new liberal Portugal, combined both liberalism and nationalism, in the manner of the Atlantic Revolutions; and, more relevantly, with that collective manner and purpose attracted and promoted many individual creators.<\/p>\n

Paper proposals<\/b> (for 20 minute-presentations) around this more general theme and\/or the following particular aspects are welcome:<\/p>\n