The Society of Dix-Neuviémistes
Postgraduate Study Day
www.sdn.ac.uk/postgrad.htm
to be held on Saturday 16 September 2006
at the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, Senate House, London
Call for Papers: Genius and Posterity
SDN invites postgraduate students working in any area of nineteenth-century French studies to submit proposals for 15 minute papers addressing the theme of ‘genius and posterity'.
Possible topics for discussion may include (but are not limited to):
- The Romantic artist
- Anticipating posterity
- Provincial perspectives
- The City as creative melting-pot
- Inspiration, folly and patience
- Political figures and ideologies
- Theories and forms for safeguarding posterity
- The generation game
- Shadows of the past
- Precocious / belated genius
- Literary domination
- Misrecognition
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words (in English or French) by Monday 26 June 2006 to: helen.abbott@kcl.ac.uk