4th

TOPIC: LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS

             IN 18th- AND 19th-CENTURY BRITAIN

DATE: May 20, 2016

COORDINATOR: Dr Jakub Lipski, Kazimierz Wielki University, Bydgoszcz

DEADLINES: 

• proposals (about 200 words) - April 15
• complete papers - May 10

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS:

• the sister arts in 18th- and 19th-century aesthetic thought
• the art of description (in poetry and prose)
• inter-artistic themes and motifs
• the art of illustration
• typography – the book as an aesthetic object
• narrative aspects in visual arts
• multi-sensuality in literature

KEYNOTE SPEAKER:

Prof. Peter de Voogd, University of Utrecht
former President of the International Association of Word and Image Studies (IAWIS) 1990-1996, founding editor of The Shandean

PROGRAMME

10.00-11.00 Plenary lecture
Chair: Prof. Grażyna Bystydzieńska  

Prof. Peter de Voogd
The Black Page: Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy, and the visual

11.00-11.30 – coffee break

11.30-12.30 Session I: Illustration  

Chair: Magdalena Pypeć

Małgorzata Łuczyńska-Hołdys
From the Romantic to the Decadent aesthetics: 
Illustrations for John Keats’s Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
Dracula ‘Unillustrated’, or the peculiar trajectories of visual influence

12.30-13.00 – coffee break

13.00-14.00 – Session II: Religious art
Chair: Joanna Maciulewicz

Jakub Lipski
Guido’s ‘heads’ and sentimental fiction from Sterne to Radcliffe

Monika Mazurek
Are Protestantism and art incompatible?
The attitudes to religious art in Victorian literature

14.00-14.30 – coffee break

14.30-15.30 – Session III: The body
Chair: Jakub Lipski

Przemysław Uściński
Painterly Satire: Fielding, Hogarth and the eighteenth-century grotesque

Magdalena Pypeć
Depicting the body in the Victorian novel:
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

15.30-16.00 – A survey report

Anna Gutowska
Adaptations in teaching


Plenary lecture: room 131
Sessions: room 345
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