by katythompson | Feb 12, 2018 | CFPS
Recent scholarship, particularly George Gissing and the Woman Question: Convention and Dissent (2013), edited by Christine Huguet and Simon James, has opened up new ways of thinking about Gissing’s depiction of women. 2018 celebrates the 125th anniversary of The Odd...
by katythompson | Feb 7, 2018 | CFPS
This one-day event, part of the annual programme of the History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) research collaboration at The Open University, explores in the centenary year of the war’s end the legacy of wartime bibliotherapy. It brings together early career researchers...
by katythompson | Feb 5, 2018 | CFPS
Third Conference of the International Society for Heresy Studies with the Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature Friday 15 – Saturday 16 June 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS Following two successful New York City conferences in 2014 and 2016, the International...
by katythompson | Jan 19, 2018 | CFPS
Contestations: Literature & Aesthetics Regent’s University London 11 – 12 July 2018 Keynote speakers: Prof Peter Lamarque, University of York, UK Dr Jukka Mikkonen, University of Tampere, Finland That literature is an art form is scarcely a matter of...
by chrisa | Jan 17, 2018 | CFPS
Decadence, Magic(k), and the Occult Goldsmiths, University of London, 19-20 July 2018 Keynote speaker: Professor Patricia Pulham (University of Surrey) Nineteenth-century Decadence coincided with a resurgence of esotericism, alternative religions, and a belief in...
