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Romanticism and Property
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Property changed in both idea and practice in the decades around 1800. The French Revolution saw an upheaval of property relations through the confiscation of Church and aristocratic estates. In the same years, settler-colonial societies experimented with new ways of selling, trading and legally codifying the ownership of land. Even as the transatlantic slave trade continued to generate enormous profits from trafficking, selling and exploiting the labour of kidnapped peoples, the Abolition movement challenged the categorization of people as property. And while ownership of land and people was at the forefront of these changes, they also took in new instruments of intellectual property, including of literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Romantic literature and other artforms were engaged extensively with their own changing legal status. They also tracked much broader shifts in what property was and how it was conceived\u2014not least property in land, tellingly named \u201creal property\u201d or \u201creal estate\u201d. For Samuel Taylor Coleridge, there was \u201cnothing more pernicious than the notion that any one possesses an absolute right to the Soil.\u201d The young Coleridge associated \u201cthe right of landed Property\u201d with the origin of the \u201caccumulative system\u201d of capitalism, and planned pantisocracy primarily as a community that abolished property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The organisers of this conference invite proposals on Romanticism and property in any of its many and varied conceptualisations. Potential topics include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n\n\n\n