{"id":10749,"date":"2020-02-16T23:08:44","date_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=10749"},"modified":"2020-02-16T23:08:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-16T23:08:44","slug":"cfp-rhoda-broughton-and-her-contemporaries-a-centenary-conference-4-24-2020-9-11-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2020\/02\/16\/cfp-rhoda-broughton-and-her-contemporaries-a-centenary-conference-4-24-2020-9-11-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Rhoda Broughton And Her Contemporaries: A Centenary Conference (4\/24\/2020; 9\/11\/2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10750 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/univ-of-greenwich-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>Rhoda Broughton And Her Contemporaries<\/p>\n<p>University of Greenwich, London<\/p>\n<p>September 11, 2020<\/p>\n<p>A conference to commemorate the centenary of Rhoda Broughton\u2019s death<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the\u00a0VPFA and co-organised with\u00a0Dr Graziella Stringos<\/p>\n<p><em>Keynote Speaker:<\/em>\u00a0Prof Tamar Heller\u00a0(University of Cincinnati)<\/p>\n<p>Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) was considered one of the queens of the circulating library in Victorian England. Broughton is the author of more than twenty novels and a collection of short stories, the latter featuring supernatural and mysterious elements. Her first two novels,\u00a0<em>Cometh up as a Flower<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Not Wisely but too Well<\/em>, earned her the reputation of a sensation writer; they were followed by other works containing sensational elements and subject-matter, and featuring rebellious, impetuous, passionate but often na\u00efve heroines. She later resorted to one-volume novels in which she revealed skill and depth. These gems include\u00a0<em>A Beginner<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Lavinia<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Mamma<\/em>. Constant staples of her writing are her wit, her humour and her observant eye.<\/p>\n<p>This centenary conference aims to assess the significance of Broughton\u2019s literary career, covering from the late Victorian period to the Modernist era. It seeks to underline her influence on her contemporaries and on subsequent writers. It also encourages the evaluation of the variety of subgenres that she experimented with, including, sensation fiction, domestic fiction and the New Woman novel, so that her idiosyncratic style of writing and her contribution to Victorian and twentieth-century literature can be further highlighted. The conference also welcomes comparative studies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please send proposals for 20-minute papers on topics that might include, but are in no way limited to, the following:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Broughton as a public figure<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and her publishers<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and the circulating library<\/li>\n<li>Broughton\u2019s influence on the contemporary marketplace<\/li>\n<li>Broughton\u2019s critical reception then and the reassessment of her work now<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and Jane Austen<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and the Bront\u00eb sisters<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and George Eliot<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and the French novel<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and her contemporaries: mentoring, friendships, literary rivals, etc. (including Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Henry James, Anne Thackeray-Ritchie, Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde)<\/li>\n<li>Broughton, Modernists and Modernism<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and other art forms and media (including adaptations of her work to drama and film)<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and sensation fiction<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and domestic fiction<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and the New Woman novel<\/li>\n<li>Broughton and satire and parody<\/li>\n<li>Humour in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Subversion versus endorsement of convention in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Love in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Gender issues in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Male and female types in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>The Woman Question in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Family in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Nature in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Place in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Illness and death in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Gothic elements and the supernatural in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Psychology in Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<li>Feminist readings of Broughton\u2019s fiction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please send proposals of not more than 300 words and a 100-word biography in Word format to Dr Graziella Stringos at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:graziella.stringos@um.edu.mt\">graziella.stringos@um.edu.mt<\/a>\u00a0by no later than Friday 24<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0April 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rhoda Broughton And Her Contemporaries University of Greenwich, London September 11, 2020 A conference to commemorate the centenary of Rhoda Broughton\u2019s death Hosted by the\u00a0VPFA and co-organised with\u00a0Dr Graziella Stringos Keynote Speaker:\u00a0Prof Tamar Heller\u00a0(University of Cincinnati) Rhoda Broughton (1840-1920) was considered one of the queens of the circulating library in Victorian England. 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