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  1. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2020
    État de la recherche sur les récits de voyage entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine (XVIIIe-XIXe siècles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    État de la recherche sur les récits de voyage entre l’Europe et l’Amérique latine (XVIII e -XIX e siècles) Journée d’étude organisée par Matthias Soubise (ENS de Lyon) et Daniel Lopez (Université Clermont-Auvergne), avec le soutien de...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from the Benelux Countries and 12 more
    Created on: 02.10.2020
  2. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2020
    “Make ’em cry, make ’em laugh, make ’em wait”: Sensation, mystery and detection in the Victorian novel (Winter 2020 issue of the ESSE Messenger)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The phrase “Make ’em laugh; make ’em cry; make ’em wait” usually ascribed to Charles Reade – an English novelist and dramatist active in the second half of the 19th century – was to become famous after William Wilkie Collins rearranged it as “Make...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 17.08.2020
  3. Alfonso de Toro
    University or institution: Universität Leipzig
    Fields of research: Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean); French literature; Italian literature; Spanish literature; Portugese literature; North African literature; Literary theory; Poststructuralism; Deconstruction; Postcolonial studies; Narratology; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and media studies; Intermediality; Novel; autobiography; Drama; Tragedy; Comedy; Tragicomedy; The fictional; Literature of the 17th century; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  4. Category: Lecture series
    Beginning: 30.09.2020
    Lecture: Haunting Angels (Amy Hollywood)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Many characters die twice in the nineteenth-century British and American novel, with protracted and repeated death scenes marking the profundity and inescapability of death, its communal nature, and the deep sentimentality associated with the loss of...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Novel and 1 more
    Created on: 26.06.2020
  5. Florian Gödel
    University or institution: Philipps-Universität Marburg
    Fields of research: Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; French literature; Italian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Hermeneutics; Reader-response criticism; Postcolonial studies; World Literature; Multilingualism studies / Interlinguality; Interdisciplinarity; Literature and other forms of art; Literature and sociology; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Poetics; Lyric poetry; Other lyrical forms; Prose; Non-fictional literature; Drama; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Translation; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century

  6. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.09.2020
    British Travels to the Americas During the Long 19th Century (NEMLA 2021)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    This panel seeks to investigate cross-cultural and intercultural exchanges in British literature produced by men and women who traveled to and from the Americas (North, Central, and South) during the long 19th century (1750-1900). It provides a...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  travel literature,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 15.06.2020
  7. Reinhard M. Möller
    University or institution: Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland; Literature from UK and Ireland; South Asian literature; Literary historiography; Literary theory; Narratology; World Literature; Literature and cultural studies; Literature and philosophy; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Novel; Short forms (anecdote, fable, fragment); travel literature; Aesthetics; Rhetoric; Themes, motifs, thematology; Literature of the 18th century; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.10.2020
    The New Woman and Humour (A special issue of Cahiers victoriens et édouardiens, 96 (2022))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    https://journals.openedition.org/cve/?lang=en In late Victorian satirical magazines, comedies and conversation, the New Woman was an inexhaustible source of fun. For the opponents of women’s emancipation, ridicule was a weapon, which could win...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 22.05.2020
  9. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 31.08.2020
    Female Voices in 1770s-1830s: Genres/Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-education and Writing in the Anglo-European Context
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Female Voices in 1770s-1830s: Genres/Forms of Women’s Reading, Self-education and Writing in the Anglo-European Context Mary Wollstonecraft, heralding the importance of female education along with the process of...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literary genre,  Literature of the 18th century and 1 more
    Created on: 22.05.2020
  10. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 30.11.2020
    Victorian Materialisms, (EJES, Volume 26 (2022))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    The editors of EJES are issuing calls for papers for the three issues of the journal to be published in 2022. Guest editors: Ursula Kluwick (University of Bern), Ariane de Waal (MLU Halle-Wittenberg) Matter ineluctably matters; it...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century
    Created on: 08.05.2020
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.06.2020
    Approaches to Teaching the Poetry of Robert Frost
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Essays in this volume could address teaching Frost’s work by focusing on topics such as science, Darwinism and belief, gender relations/gender conflict, rural/urban life, politics, race/racism, traditional media/new media, the natural and/or the...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Didactics of Literature,  Lyric poetry and 2 more
    Created on: 27.04.2020
  12. Discovering Literature: Explore literature in context
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Discovering Literature brings to life the social, political and cultural context in which key works of literature were written. Enjoy digitised treasures from our collection, newly commissioned articles, short documentary films and teachers’ notes. ...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Themes, motifs, thematology,  Digital teaching and 7 more
    Created on: 17.04.2020
  13. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.03.2020
    Non-canonical British Literature 1890-1945
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Call for book chapters - Non-canonical British literature: 1890-1945 - abstracts by 10 March, papers due 30 June 2020 We are working on an edited book on non-canonical English literature between 1890 and 1945 to be published by a UK publisher by...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature of the 19th century,  Literature of the 20th century
    Created on: 17.02.2020
  14. Julia Schneidhofer
    University or institution: Universität Wien
    Fields of research: Literature from North America; Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland); Literature from UK and Ireland; Eastern European literature (Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine); Eastern Middle European literature (Poland, Slowakia, Czech Republic, Hungary); Gender Studies/Queer Studies; Literature and social and cultural anthropology; Intermediality; Lyric poetry; Theory of translation; Literature of the 19th century; Literature of the 20th century; Literature of the 21st century

  15. Category: Conferences, Congresses
    Beginning: 25.02.2020
    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft (Bad Homburg, 25.–27.2.2020)
    Submitted by: Mira Shah

    Die Zukunft der Inseln. Passagen zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft 25.-27.2.2020 Eine Tagung des DFG-Projekts „Entangled Island Times. Zu einer Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte der Inselbiogeographie“ (Roland Borgards, Lena Kugler,...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland),  Literature from Germany, Austria, Switzerland and 13 more
    Created on: 22.01.2020