TOPIC: LANDSCAPE, COUNTRYSIDE AND TOPOGRAPHY
IN BRITISH LITERATURE AND CULTURE OF THE LONG
18th AND 19th CENTURIES
DATE: 24 May 2019
CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS & THEMES:
DATE: 24 May 2019
COORDINATOR: Dr hab. Magdalena Pypeć, University of Warsaw
DEADLINES:
- proposals (about 200 words) - 20 April 2019
- complete papers - 10 May 2019
- landscape, time and memory
- symbolic landscapes
- real and imagined landscapes
- pastoral and anti-pastoral
- personifications of landscape
- gardens, mountains, forests, rivers
- literary topography
- the intersection of art, science and nature
- Gothic nature: the ecohorror and the ecogothic
PROGRAMME
10:30–11.30 Session 1
Przemysław Uściński
The Revolutionary Nostalgia of the Countryside
Rafał Borkowski
The External and Internal Landscapes in The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole
12.00–13.00 Plenary lecture
Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska
Professor Stephen Daniels, FBA
Putting Topography in Its Place: Mapping, Art and Literature in Landscape Representation
14.00–15.00 Session 2
Małgorzata Nitka
Landscape and Motion
Aleksandra Kędzierska
G.M. Hopkins: Landscape with a Rainbow
15.30–16.30 Session 3
Magdalena Ożarska
Cabbage and Cabbage Beds in the Life Writing of Frances Burney, Dorothy Wordsworth
and William Wordsworth
Kamil Pacuda
Two Reflections of the Regional Novel in the 19th Century in the Writings of George Eliot
and Thomas Hardy
Venue:
The Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
69 Hoża Street
Sessions: room 224 (1st floor)
Lecture: room 113 (ground floor, library)
Sessions: room 224 (1st floor)
Lecture: room 113 (ground floor, library)
