Thursday, November 22, 2012

Deadline Extended: Victorian Poetry: Forms and Fashions (12/15/2012; 4/19-20/2013)



Victorian Poetry: Forms and Fashions
A Conference in Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Victorian Poetry
19-20 April 2013
West Virginia University


Please send 300-500 word proposals for papers and a 1-page c.v. via email to:
John.Lamb@mail.wvu.edu by 15 December 2012.

Papers on any aspect of Victorian poetry and poetics are invited, especially those devoted to: the reconsideration of poetic forms and formal innovations; fashions, trends, and modes in poetry; the publication and commerce of poetry; poetry book history; and Victorian prosody and stanzaic forms.  Papers devoted to the "fashions" of scholarship on Victorian poetry for the last fifty years are also invited.