{"id":2202,"date":"2012-03-19T15:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2012\/03\/19\/cfprichard-marsh-re-reading-the-fin-de-siecle-4202012-7202012\/"},"modified":"2012-03-19T15:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-19T15:59:00","slug":"cfprichard-marsh-re-reading-the-fin-de-siecle-4202012-7202012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2012\/03\/19\/cfprichard-marsh-re-reading-the-fin-de-siecle-4202012-7202012\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP:Richard Marsh: Re-Reading the Fin de Si\u00e8cle (4\/20\/2012; 7\/20\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Richard Marsh: Re-Reading the Fin de Si\u00e8cle<br \/>A one-day symposium at the University of Brighton<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Friday 20th July 2012<\/p>\n<p>Richard Marsh is best-known for his 1897 novel <i>The Beetle<\/i>, a gothic bestseller at the time more popular than <i>Dracula<\/i>. Indeed Marsh was a prolific and extremely successful writer in the 1890s and the early 20<sup>th<\/sup> century. Strikingly, however, his writing has until recently been mostly forgotten. With several of his novels and shorter fictions now being republished, this situation is set to change. The symposium seeks to harness renewed academic interest in Marsh towards a reappraisal of his significance for a fin de si\u00e8cle culture that is often considered to offer a kind of mirror onto our own culture at the start of the 21<sup>st<\/sup> century. It will bring together literary and historical specialists of the period to examine Marsh's oeuvre as a whole. A central concern will be to examine how Marsh's ambivalent fiction often works against the grain of more canonical texts and therefore has the potential productively to unsettle what it is thought is known about fin de si\u00e8cle culture. Understanding late-Victorian \/ Edwardian questions about gender and sexuality, imperialism, science and the nature of history, surely remain incomplete without negotiating the complex terrain of Richard Marsh's writing.<\/p>\n<p>We invite abstracts for papers on any aspect of Marsh's output, but in particular on the following themes:<br \/><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br \/><!--[endif]--><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Gothic<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Fictions of crime and detection<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Romance<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Comedy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Discourses of race, empire and eugenics<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The New Woman<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Homosociality and homosexuality<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Late-Victorian understandings of history \/ the use of the classical past<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">The literary market-place<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\">Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words to <a href=\"mailto:d.orrells@warwick.ac.uk\">d.orrells@warwick.ac.uk<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:v.margree@brighton.ac.uk\">v.margree@brighton.ac.uk<\/a>. We anticipate that speakers will have approximately 20 minutes to deliver&nbsp;their papers on the day. A small registration fee will be charged (details to be confirmed). We also welcome participants who wish to attend the event without delivering a paper, although places are&nbsp;limited.<\/p>\n<p><b>Deadline<\/b> for abstracts: Friday 20th April 2012<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Marsh: Re-Reading the Fin de Si\u00e8cleA one-day symposium at the University of Brighton Friday 20th July 2012 Richard Marsh is best-known for his 1897 novel The Beetle, a gothic bestseller at the time more popular than Dracula. Indeed Marsh was a prolific and extremely successful writer in the 1890s and the early 20th century. 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