{"id":575,"date":"2015-02-09T22:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T22:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2015-04-11T22:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-04-11T22:20:28","slug":"cfp-writing-lives-together-romantic-and-victorian-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bars.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Writing Lives Together: Romantic and Victorian Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please see below for a call for papers and posters from Felicity James and Julian North for ‘Writing Lives Together<\/a>‘, a conference on Romantic and Victorian biography which will take place in Leicester in September.\u00a0 The call closes on the last day of March.<\/p>\n

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Writing Lives Together: <\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Romantic and Victorian Biography<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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A Conference at the University of Leicester, 18th September 2015<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Supported by the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) <\/span>and the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS)<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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CALL FOR PAPERS<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Keynote Speakers:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n
Prof. David Amigoni<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> (Keele), ‘Writing Lives Together in the Darwin family, 1804-1876: gender, heredity and authority’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
Dr. Daisy Hay<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/a> (Exeter), ‘Adventures of an Unromantic Biographer’<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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Recent biographical criticism and biographies of the Romantics and Victorians have moved away from a focus on the single life to encompass different creative relationships: the friendship circle; the literary family; the local or religious community. In so doing they are returning to the practices of Romantic and Victorian biographers who often \u2018wrote <\/span><\/span>Lives <\/i><\/span><\/span>together\u2019, both in the sense of focusing on multiple subjects and in adopting collaborative modes of authorship. Our conference will reflect on these and other kinds of \u2018writing together\u2019, in Romantic and Victorian life-writing \u2013 for instance how life-writing might bring together Romantic and Victorian subjects\/authors; or different disciplines, materials or media.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n

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We welcome proposals on any aspect of Romantic and\/or Victorian life-writing. Topics may include but are not limited to:<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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