Call for Papers
REMARKING THE TEXT
July 19th and 20th
University of St. Andrews, Scotland
Following the success of the Marking the Text Conference at Trinity College Cambridge in 1998, this conference aims to facilitate the ongoing discussion of textual criticism, editing, and the materiality of the text. The conference will explore the issue of textuality within the broadest parameters, taking in relationships between writers, publishers, printers, booksellers, and others and also attending to the text as a physical object. The conference will not be period-specific in its focus and will aim to encourage dialogue among specialists from a diverse range of scholarly fields.
Topics for papers might include (but need not be limited to):
* margins
* lacunae
* typography
* textual distortion
* markets
* technology
* underground publishing
* handwriting
* palimpsest
* illustration
* facsimiles
* independent publishing
* counterfeiting
Abstracts of about 500 words should be submitted by 31 October 2000 to the reading committee at:
Remarking the Text
School of English
University of St. Andrews
Fife, KY16 9AL
UK
Enquiries to jg9@st-andrews.ac.uk
phone: [+44] (0) 1334 462666
RA (source: CFP)