Beth Palmer
2006-08-31 10:53:50 UTC
UPDATE: CFP DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 1st OCTOBER 2006 FOR
'Print Culture and the Novel: 1850-1900'
A One-Day Conference, English Faculty, University of Oxford
20th January 2007
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
– Laurel Brake, Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck,
University of London
- Simon Eliot, Professor of History of the Book, IES, University of
London
NOW INCLUDED: New exhibition of nineteenth-century print media from the
Bodleian Library’s John Johnson collection.
Sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies
Wine Reception sponsored by Proquest
CFP:
No longer was it possible for people to avoid reading matter; everywhere
they went it was displayed - weekly papers at a penny or twopence,
complete books, enticing in their bright picture covers, at a shilling,
and all fresh and crisp from the press. No wonder that the fifties, which
saw the spread of Smith's stalls to almost every principal railway line i
n
the country, were also the period when the sales of books and periodicals
reached unprecedented levels.
Richard Altick.
2007 marks fifty years since Richard Altick’s The English Common Reader
.
That book tells us that printed matter was, from the 1850s, ubiquitous in
British society. Consequently, the novel was accessible to readers via a
newly diverse and dynamic print culture, - an accessibility which affecte
d
its structure, reputation and content. This model has served critics of
Victorian literature for almost fifty years, but as Altick's
groundbreaking and influential work approaches its half-century it is
perhaps time to consider, review and collate work on print culture and th
e
novel.
This conference seeks to interrogate the various relationships not only
between the novel and the periodical, but between a whole range of
emergent print forms as they developed in the period, such as advertising
,
illustration, cartoons and pamphlets. Adumbrated in the Common Reader, th
e
ways in which the novel was made available to readers can be productively
re-thought in the light of new research taking place in this field.
Focussing on the second half of the nineteenth century we encourage a
broad interpretation of themes which might include, but is not limited to
:
The commercialisation of the novel
The author as professional
Serialisation
The role of the publisher in the development of the novel
Readerships: were different print-forms read differently?
The novel as an institution of print culture
We welcome papers taking an interdisciplinary approach that productively
combine literary with book-history methodologies.
We invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration. 200-250 word
proposals should be sent to ***@ell.ox.ac.uk by 1st OCTOBER 2006
For further details and booking form see the conference website at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~printcc/conference/index.htm
Adelene Buckland and Beth Palmer
***@ell.ox.ac.uk
***@ell.ox.ac.uk
Apologies for any cross-posting.
'Print Culture and the Novel: 1850-1900'
A One-Day Conference, English Faculty, University of Oxford
20th January 2007
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
– Laurel Brake, Professor of Literature and Print Culture, Birkbeck,
University of London
- Simon Eliot, Professor of History of the Book, IES, University of
London
NOW INCLUDED: New exhibition of nineteenth-century print media from the
Bodleian Library’s John Johnson collection.
Sponsored by the British Association for Victorian Studies
Wine Reception sponsored by Proquest
CFP:
No longer was it possible for people to avoid reading matter; everywhere
they went it was displayed - weekly papers at a penny or twopence,
complete books, enticing in their bright picture covers, at a shilling,
and all fresh and crisp from the press. No wonder that the fifties, which
saw the spread of Smith's stalls to almost every principal railway line i
n
the country, were also the period when the sales of books and periodicals
reached unprecedented levels.
Richard Altick.
2007 marks fifty years since Richard Altick’s The English Common Reader
.
That book tells us that printed matter was, from the 1850s, ubiquitous in
British society. Consequently, the novel was accessible to readers via a
newly diverse and dynamic print culture, - an accessibility which affecte
d
its structure, reputation and content. This model has served critics of
Victorian literature for almost fifty years, but as Altick's
groundbreaking and influential work approaches its half-century it is
perhaps time to consider, review and collate work on print culture and th
e
novel.
This conference seeks to interrogate the various relationships not only
between the novel and the periodical, but between a whole range of
emergent print forms as they developed in the period, such as advertising
,
illustration, cartoons and pamphlets. Adumbrated in the Common Reader, th
e
ways in which the novel was made available to readers can be productively
re-thought in the light of new research taking place in this field.
Focussing on the second half of the nineteenth century we encourage a
broad interpretation of themes which might include, but is not limited to
:
The commercialisation of the novel
The author as professional
Serialisation
The role of the publisher in the development of the novel
Readerships: were different print-forms read differently?
The novel as an institution of print culture
We welcome papers taking an interdisciplinary approach that productively
combine literary with book-history methodologies.
We invite proposals for papers of 20 minutes duration. 200-250 word
proposals should be sent to ***@ell.ox.ac.uk by 1st OCTOBER 2006
For further details and booking form see the conference website at
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~printcc/conference/index.htm
Adelene Buckland and Beth Palmer
***@ell.ox.ac.uk
***@ell.ox.ac.uk
Apologies for any cross-posting.