CFP: VSAO 2014 “Too Little, Too Late: Decadence and Incompleteness in the Victorian Era” (2/7/2014; 4/26/2014)

Victorian Studies Association of Ontario

Glendon College, York University, Toronto

April 26, 2014

Deadline: February 7, 2014

Plenary Speakers: Professors Stephen Arata (University of Virginia) and Barbara Leckie (Carleton University)

“Too Little, Too Late: Decadence and Incompleteness in the Victorian Era”

The VSAO executive invites proposals for three 20-minute papers to be presented at the Association's 47th annual conference at Glendon College, York University, Toronto, on April 26, 2014.  

We invite proposals to interpret the conference theme in broad and imaginative ways.  Papers might address:

• belatedness 
• inattention or indifference
• embellishment, ornament, frills
• unfinished, underdeveloped, or unfulfilled work
• superfluity and superficiality
• the un/de/dis-composed
• decay, degeneration, and extinction
• sketches, drafts, notes

Please send electronic copies of proposals (300-500 words) and a brief biographical statement to Alison Syme  alison.syme@utoronto.ca by February 7, 2014. 

For more information visit the website:  http://vsao.apps01.yorku.ca/