{"id":4142,"date":"2016-08-19T20:58:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=4142"},"modified":"2016-08-19T20:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T20:58:26","slug":"cfp-george-egerton-and-the-fin-de-siecle-1112016-47-82017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2016\/08\/19\/cfp-george-egerton-and-the-fin-de-siecle-1112016-47-82017\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: George Egerton and the <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> (11\/1\/2016; 4\/7-8\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4143\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/egerton.jpg\" alt=\"egerton\" width=\"200\" height=\"218\" \/>George Egerton and the<em> fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A two-day conference organised by the Modern &amp; Contemporary Research Group at Loughborough University<br \/>\nFriday 7 \u2013 Saturday 8 April 2017<\/p>\n<p>Keynote speaker: Professor Margaret D. Stetz (University of Delaware)<\/p>\n<p>This is the first conference dedicated to the life and work of George Egerton, the nom de plume of Mary Chavelita Dunne (1859\u20131945). Egerton is often discussed in relation to New Woman writing, and scholars have tended to focus on her first two short story collections, <em>Keynotes<\/em> (1893) and<em> Discords<\/em> (1894). Although the conference welcomes papers that consider her early works, it seeks to go beyond these parameters, with the aim of recovering her wider oeuvre and reassessing her wider contribution to <em>fin de si\u00e8cle<\/em> and early 20th century literature and drama.<\/p>\n<p>Possible topics for papers might include, but are in no way limited to:<\/p>\n<li>Egerton and Aestheticism \/ Decadence<\/li>\n<li>Egerton\u2019s plays<\/li>\n<li>Egerton\u2019s later work and her influence in the 20th century<\/li>\n<li>Bodies \/ the body \/ essentialism<\/li>\n<li>Realism \/ Modernism \/ Style<\/li>\n<li>Place and Nation<\/li>\n<li>Motherhood \/ Children and Childhood<\/li>\n<li>Sight and Seeing<\/li>\n<li>Community \/ Literary networks<\/li>\n<li>Publishing History<\/li>\n<li>Sexuality \/ The \u2018Eternal Feminine\u2019 \/ Mysticism<\/li>\n<li>The Professional Woman \/ The Working Woman \/ The New Woman<\/li>\n<li>Men and Masculinity<\/li>\n<li>Egerton and international influences \/ Scandinavian Literature<\/li>\n<li>Irish Literature and the Irish tradition<\/li>\n<p>Please send abstracts of 300 words and a short biographical note (150 words) to <a href=\"mailto:georgeegertonconf@gmail.com\">georgeegertonconf@gmail.com<\/a> by 1 November 2016. Address enquiries to Dr Nick Freeman (<a href=\"mailto:n.freeman@lboro.ac.uk\">n.freeman@lboro.ac.uk<\/a>) and Dr Anne-Marie Beller (<a href=\"mailto:a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk\">a.m.beller@lboro.ac.uk<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Egerton and the fin de si\u00e8cle A two-day conference organised by the Modern &amp; Contemporary Research Group at Loughborough University Friday 7 \u2013 Saturday 8 April 2017 Keynote speaker: Professor Margaret D. Stetz (University of Delaware) This is the first conference dedicated to the life and work of George Egerton, the nom de plume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,1],"tags":[1180,506,512,734,1480,1481,554,510],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4144,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4142\/revisions\/4144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}