{"id":4924,"date":"2023-12-08T16:02:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4924"},"modified":"2023-12-08T16:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T16:02:23","slug":"cfp-tolkiens-romantic-resonances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=4924","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Tolkien\u2019s Romantic Resonances"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Saturday 6th July
(Free Hybrid Event) Hilton Leeds City<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As early as The Book of Lost Tales<\/em> (1910s-1930s) Tolkien\u2019s prose and poetry was infused with elements of the stylistics, aesthetics, and philosophies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romantics. Although it has been shown that Tolkien learnt about and read a range of Romantic works, his dialogue with Samuel Taylor Coleridge\u2019s \u201cwilling suspension of disbelief\u201d in \u2018On Fairy-stories\u2019 has dominated the intersections between Romantic and Tolkien studies. This has overshadowed the role that Romantic influences played in the shaping of Middle-earth, as well as the Romantic legacies in Victorian literature and art that had a significant impact on Tolkien\u2019s writing. While Tolkien clearly rejected certain forms of Romanticism, he worked within a literary tradition that was partially shaped by the Romantics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This seminar seeks fresh and innovative readings of Tolkien\u2019s Romantic Resonances that are in dialogue with modern scholarship on Romanticisms, Romantic aesthetics and Romantic-period histories. The seminar understands \u2018Romanticism\u2019 and the \u2018Romantic\u2019 as complex, nuanced terms that elude simplification, traditional historical markers, and solely Anglocentric readings. We welcome proposals that address the broader application of the terms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Papers may address but are in no way limited to the following topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n