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  1. 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
  2. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.11.2020
    Strange Country – Ireland in politics and culture, 1998-2020
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Strange Country – Ireland in politics and culture, 1998-2020 SOFEIR annual conference, 16, 17, 18 March 2021, Université Paris Nanterre 1998 was a momentous year for Ireland, north and south. The Good Friday Agreement...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Literature of the 20th century and 1 more
    Created on: 06.07.2020
  3. 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
  4. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 03.10.2020
    Covid 19 and the Plague Year (revue Angles)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “The plague full swift goes by; I am sick, I must die. Lord, have mercy on us!” Thomas Nashe, ‘A Litany in Time of Plague’ (1592) “I had a little bird Its name was Enza I opened the window, And in-flu-enza.” 1918...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland
    Created on: 15.06.2020
  5. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.10.2020
    Fine-combing the past: frames, patterns and metaphors (Études Irlandaises, French Journal of Irish Studies, Spring/Summer 2021 issue)
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Issue editors: Nathalie SEBBANE et Mathew STAUNTON The raison d’être of this thematic issue is to showcase innovative, experimental and disruptive approaches to transforming the traces of the Irish past into evidence and narratives from as...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Narratology,  Literature and cultural studies
    Created on: 08.06.2020
  6. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.12.2020
    A Tribute to Derek Walcott
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Helen Goethals and Eric Doumerc of the University of Toulouse – Jean Jaurès are putting together a Tribute to Derek Walcott , to be published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. All forms of tribute —critical essays, memoirs, and creative work— are...

    Fields of research Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Poetics and 5 more
    Created on: 29.05.2020
  7. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.06.2020
    Extended Deadline: Invisible Lives, Silent Voices in the British Literature, Arts and Culture of the 20th and 21st centuries
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Conference update – Covid 19 situation Due to the current sanitary crisis and the uncertainties hovering over the beginning of the next academic year, we have decided that the « Invisible Lives, Silent Voices » conference (15-16 October) will...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and other forms of art,  Literature and cultural studies and 2 more
    Created on: 25.05.2020
  8. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 10.07.2020
    “Work, work your thoughts”: Henry V revisited
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more!”: Harry of England’s rallying cry has never ceased to resonate with forceful energy to the ears of spectators far beyond the backdrop of the Anglo-French Hundred Years’ War. The climax of...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Gender Studies/Queer Studies,  Literature and cultural studies and 1 more
    Created on: 22.05.2020
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. Category: CfP/CfA publications
    Abstract submission deadline: 01.07.2020
    Painful Pleasure, Pleasurable Pain (JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH CULTURES ( 2/2022))
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF BRITISH CULTURES ( 2/2022) Guest Editors: Sarah Schäfer-Althaus and Cornelia Wächter Pain and pleasure are often regarded as a corporal continuum, with the body functioning as a staging ground for action, stimulated...

    Fields of research Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and cultural studies,  Themes, motifs, thematology
    Created on: 18.05.2020
  12. 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
  13. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 20.06.2020
    Cartes et cartographies dans le monde anglophone aux XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    Colloque annuel de la SEAA 17-18 Dates : 15 et 16 janvier 2021 Lieu : Université Paris-Diderot Conférence plénière : Max Edelson (University of Virginia) Les cartes sont des objets d’étude multidimensionnels....

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and geography/cartography and 2 more
    Created on: 24.04.2020
  14. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 06.04.2020
    "This thing of darkness" : la nuit dans la littérature et les arts visuels du monde anglophone
    Submitted by: Redaktion avldigital.de

    « This thing of darkness » : la nuit dans la littérature et les arts visuels du monde anglophone Journée d’étude organisée par le laboratoire doctoral OVALE, rattaché à l’Unité de recherche VALE, Faculté des Lettres de Sorbonne Université...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Literature from UK and Ireland,  Literature and visual studies
    Created on: 06.03.2020
  15. Category: CfP/CfA events
    Abstract submission deadline: 15.04.2020
    Tool Criticism 3.0 Present, past, and future methods in Digital Literary Stylistics (DLS)
    Submitted by: Berenike Herrmann

    After the success of the second edition in Utrecht , the ADHO-Special Interest Group “Digital Literary Stylistics” (SIG-DLS) organizes a new version of its Tool criticism workshop for DH2020 Ottawa. This year, it will be open to contributions...

    Fields of research Literature from North America,  Ibero-American literature (incl. Caribbean),  Northern European literature (Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland) and 19 more
    Created on: 25.02.2020