{"id":3892,"date":"2021-09-03T11:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T11:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=3892"},"modified":"2022-09-03T22:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T22:30:49","slug":"cfp-de-quincey-at-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=3892","title":{"rendered":"CFP: De Quincey at 200"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Jerwood Centre at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 13\u201314 May 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Lecture by Robert Morrison (Bath Spa University, British Academy Global Professor)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2021<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In September and October 1821, the London Magazine<\/em> published a remarkable text. Republished as a book in 1822, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar<\/em> was an instant sensation, launching its writer, Thomas De Quincey, on a long and richly varied career in literature. Negotiating between London and the Lakes, between prose and poetry, and between a dizzying range of discourses and disciplines, the Confessions<\/em> invented the genre of addiction literature and redefined what it meant to write Romantic prose. Above all, through his Confessions<\/em>, De Quincey asserted himself amongst the Lake Poets, particularly situating himself alongside and against Wordsworth and Coleridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark this singular text\u2019s bicentennial, we invite papers for an international conference on De Quincey, his Confessions<\/em>, and the Lake Poets. Suggested topics include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  De Quincey on the Lake Poets\/the Lake Poets on De Quincey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  De Quincey\u2019s later oeuvre<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  The literature of addiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  Romantic (auto)biography<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  The Confessions<\/em> at 200 in light of other Romantic bicentennials<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  Romantic essay writing: Charles Lamb, William Hazlitt, Christopher North, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  Disciplines and discourses in the Confessions<\/em> and beyond: philosophy, political economy, politics and ideology, the urban sublime, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  Reception and legacy of the Confessions<\/em>: Woolf, Baudelaire, Poe, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022  Magazine culture<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We welcome proposals for standard 20-minute conference papers (max. 250 words), as well as for three-person panels (three abstracts of max. 250 words). Experimental formats will also be considered. Please include your name, affiliation and email address in your proposal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The conference will take place in De Quincey\u2019s onetime home in the Lakes, on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 May 2022. The fee, excluding residence costs, will be in the region of \u00a3100. There are many B&Bs and hotels in Grasmere within walking distance of the venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Please send proposals and any queries to dequinceyat200@gmail.com.<\/a> The deadline is 15 November 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Organisers: Brecht de Groote (Ghent), Tim Fulford (De Montfort), and Matt Sangster (Glasgow).<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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