TOPIC: EXPERIENCING THE CITY:
URBAN SPACES AND PLACES IN THE 18th AND 19th CENTURIES
COORDINATOR: Dr Przemysław UściŃski, University of Warsaw
DEADLINES:
- proposals (about 200 words) - 12 October 2018
- complete papers - 29 October 2018
- city and modernity
- innocence/experience and the city
- urban aesthetics: experience and experimentation
- narrating urban experience: realism / fantasy
- city and adventure: fortunes and misfortunes
- urban satire: city, commerce, and corruption
- working in the city / walking in the city
- city and desire / gender and urban experience
- imagining the city / imaginary cities in literature
- city and tourism: travelling to/in/between cities
- the poetics of urban space: places, districts, streets, sights
- urban planning / city and architecture (in literary and social contexts)
- urban (literary) cultures / cliques / circles
- (post)colonial accounts: metropolis / centre / periphery
- urban/suburban (places and spaces)
PROGRAMME
10.00–11.00 Plenary lecture
Chair: Grażyna Bystydzieńska
Jeremy Tambling
Cities and Schizophrenia (with reference to Blake, Dickens, Poe, and Joyce)
Jeremy Tambling
Cities and Schizophrenia (with reference to Blake, Dickens, Poe, and Joyce)
11.30–13.00 Session 1
Chair: Małgorzata Nitka
Magdalena Ożarska
Foreign and Domestic spaces in Frances Burney’s Life Writing
Marek Błaszak
Jane Austen, Coastal Towns and Ports, and the Resort of Sanditon
Barbara Ludwiczak
Heaven and Hell – Images of London in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden and
The Prime Minister
Foreign and Domestic spaces in Frances Burney’s Life Writing
Marek Błaszak
Jane Austen, Coastal Towns and Ports, and the Resort of Sanditon
Barbara Ludwiczak
Heaven and Hell – Images of London in Anthony Trollope’s The Warden and
The Prime Minister
14.00–15.30 Session 2
Chair: Marek Błaszak
Anna Krawczyk-Łaskarzewska
City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde and Its Visual Adaptations
Małgorzata Nitka
Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs
Joanna Morawska
Hostile and Hospitable Spaces in The Walworth Beauty by Michèle Roberts
City as a Nightmare: The Treatment of Urban Space in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll
and Mr Hyde and Its Visual Adaptations
Małgorzata Nitka
Arnold Bennett’s Romance of the Suburbs
Joanna Morawska
Hostile and Hospitable Spaces in The Walworth Beauty by Michèle Roberts
16.00–17.00 Session 3
Chair: Magdalena Pypeć
Gemma Holgate
Sympathy or Dignity? Representations of the Factory Girl in Fin-de-Siècle London
Przemysław Uściński
City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London
Sympathy or Dignity? Representations of the Factory Girl in Fin-de-Siècle London
Przemysław Uściński
City and Irony: London’s Contradictions in Samuel Johnson’s London
Venue:
The Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw
69 Hoża Street
(ground floor, library)
