Actualité
Appels à contributions
Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel

Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel

Publié le par Thomas Parisot (Source : liste CFP)

Facts and Fictions: Ireland and the Novel in the Nineteenth Century

Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research, Cardiff University
14-16 September 2001

What was the relationship between the emerging national cultures of Britain and Ireland and the increasingly institutionalized form of the novel in the nineteenth century?
This conference invites papers which, rather than regarding Ireland, Britain or the novel as stable objects of knowledge, will locate ideas of nationality within the multiple contexts determining how fictions were written, read and distributed in the nineteenth century.
Our aim is to interrogate the concept of the Irish novel through an exploration of the meanings of Ireland in nineteenth-century British and Irish writing. In the process, we hope to open up what is often a narrowly conceived list of Irish texts and authors to recent research in areas such as bibliography and book production, cultural and social history, feminist studies of reading and reception, and the new British history.

Questions to be addressed might include:
- To what extent and why has the Irish novel become synonymous with the national tale of Ireland?
- How important is Ireland in the Irish novel? Or in the British novel? What is gained Wor lost Wby placing the work of Irish novelists in relation to British and/or European literary and intellectual traditions?
- How is a novel constituted as Irish? Through character, setting, authorial identity? Is there another way?
- What difference has been made by the recovery through bibliographic research of hitherto obscure or unavailable novels relating to Ireland?
- Irish novelists and British publishing industry: does London and the metropolitan publishing scene dominate the relationship between Ireland and the novel? What about connections with Scotland and Wales?
- What part does Ireland play in British nineteenth-century fiction? What factors made Ireland (as opposed to, or perhaps in conjunction with, other parts of the British empire) available for representation in the British novel?
- What is the history of British novels in Ireland?
- How much interaction was there between Irish and British novelists and their texts (e.g. Charles Dickens' reading tours of Ireland, Thackeray's travels, Trollope's residence in Ireland)?
- Scenes of reading: what difference does the study of reviews, readers and reception history make?
- Where do novels stand in relation to other kinds of writing (e.g. pamphlets, newspapers, biographies, popular histories)?

Full details available on our website: www.cf.ac.uk/encap/ceir/facts

Please send abstracts (200 words max) by 27 April 2001 to:

Dr Jacqueline Belanger
Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research (ENCAP), PO Box 94, Cardiff
University CF10 3XB, Wales, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 29 2087 6339; Fax: +44 (0)29 2087 4502
Email: BelangerJ@cardiff.ac.uk

Centre for Editorial & Intertextual Research, Cardiff University
(http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/ceir)

Cardiff Corvey: Reading the Romantic Text [ISSN 1471-5988]
(http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/corvey)

  • Adresse :
    Cardiff