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Neo-Victorian Cultures
24-26 July 2013,
Liverpool John Moores University
While aesthetic, political and artistic returns to the
Victorians have been prevalent throughout the twentieth century, the last
decade has seen a particular surge in scholarly work addressing the seemingly
ceaseless desire to reassess and adapt Victorian texts, theories, ideas and
customs. Such work has focused in particular on manifestations of the
neo-Victorian on page and on screen; this conference seeks to build on but also
expand these debates by bringing together writers, practitioners and
researchers working on the lasting presence of the Victorians since 1901 in a
wide variety of realms, ranging from art and architecture to science, politics,
economics, fiction and film. In doing so, the event aims to further expand the
vibrant field of neo-Victorian studies both within and beyond the arts and
humanities through an examination of the Victorians’ continuing influence on
twentieth and twenty-first century culture. We therefore welcome and encourage
abstracts from postgraduate students, academics and independent researchers
from all academic realms in the hope of capturing the diverse work being done
on Victorian afterlives across a wide spectrum of disciplines and across
traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to, the
following:
- the ethics, politics and aesthetics of adaptation
- the gender and sexual politics of neo-Victorianism
- neo-Victorianism on page, screen and canvas
- neo-Victorian subcultures
- the Victorians in contemporary architecture, art and design
- neo-Victorian journalism/ the Victorian press and contemporary journalism
- the Victorians in contemporary science and medicine
- the neo-Victorian canon
- teaching neo-Victorianism
- the neo-Victorian marketplace; consuming and marketing the (neo-)Victorians
- Steampunk
Presentations should take the form of 20-minute papers. We
also welcome proposals for fully-formed panels or roundtables. For individual
papers, please submit a 300-word abstract as well as a short biographical note.
For panel and roundtable proposals, please provide a brief outline of the
session’s aims together with abstracts and biographical notes for each speaker
and for the proposed panel chair or discussant. All proposals should be emailed
to the organisers at organisers@neovictoriancultures.org.uk
no later than 1 March 2013. Please
do not hesitate to email us if you have any questions about the event.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and to welcoming
you to LJMU in July!
Conference Website: http://www.neovictoriancultures.org.uk/
