Please see below for a Call for Papers for a really interesting-sounding conference on Community and its Limits, which will be held at the University of Leeds in September next year.<\/p>\n
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Please send 250-word proposals for 20-minute papers to community.conference@leeds.ac.uk <\/a>by Tuesday 31 March 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n A community needs limits: someone has to be in, and someone has to be out. What defined the limits of cultural communities\u2014communities of writers and radicals, of artists and improvers, of faith and taste\u2014in the long Romantic period? The theme of community has recently been powerfully invigorating for studies of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century literature and culture. What limits are there to that approach?<\/p>\n The School of English at the University of Leeds<\/a> hosts this three-day conference on the discursive, affective, and conceptual limits of community. We welcome papers that reconstruct the making, preservation, and breaking of group identities in Enlightenment and Romantic Britain, and papers investigating communities\u2019 temporal and spatial boundaries. Equally, delegates might reflect on critical methods for the study of community. Are \u2018communities\u2019 different from coteries, factions, or circles, for instance? We are especially interested in the prickly side of community: in papers that examine how creative and political communities could succeed or fail in negotiating discord.<\/p>\n Topics might include (but are not limited to): Please see below for a Call for Papers for a really interesting-sounding conference on Community and its Limits, which will be held at the University of Leeds in September next… 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\/476"}],"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=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00b7 Metropolitan, provincial, and rural sociability
\n\u00b7 Literary and artistic schools and cliques
\n\u00b7 National and local communities
\n\u00b7 Gendered communities
\n\u00b7 Corresponding societies; literary and philosophical societies
\n\u00b7 Improvement; radicalism; utopianism
\n\u00b7 Religious communities and Dissenting academies
\n\u00b7 Libraries, reading practices, and book history
\n\u00b7 Periodical \u2018wars\u2019 and magazine culture
\n\u00b7 Patronage and benevolent societies
\n\u00b7 Scapegoats; conspiracies; underground sects and criminal gangs
\n\u00b7 Leisure and consumption; assembly rooms; fashion
\n\u00b7 Community with non-humans; community and the sublime
\n\u00b7 Theoretical approaches to the ethics or politics of community<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"