1st

TOPIC: RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE

                 IN 18th- AND 19th-CENTURY LITERATURE

DATE: May 8, 2014

COORDINATORS: Dr Monika Mazurek, Pedagogical University, Kraków, 
                                         Dr Joanna Maciulewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań
                                         Dr Agnieszka Setecka, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań

DEADLINES: 

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

CfP SUGGESTED TOPICS:

• High/Broad/Low Church – conflict and co-existence
• The Oxford Movement and its role in literature and culture
• Conversion narratives
• Spiritualism and theosophy in Britain
• Doubt and loss of faith
• Science and religion at strife and in co-operation
• The role of the Bible and Bible-reading

PROGRAMME

11:00 Jakub Lipski, ‘The prisons of the Inquisition in Ann Radcliffe’s

           The Italian (1797)’

11:30 Dominika Oramus, ‘Echoes of the mid-19th-century spiritual crisis in selected contemporary texts referencing Charles Darwin’

12:00 – 12:20 coffee break

12:20 Monika Mazurek, ‘How High is too high? The internal conflict in the Anglican Church and its depiction in the Victorian novel’

12:50 Katarzyna Dudek, ‘“Mother of mine”: Virgin Mary as the “pattern of Faith”
 in the poetry of Gerard Manly Hopkins’

13:20 summing up and conclusion