{"id":4533,"date":"2017-03-01T03:11:47","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2017-03-01T03:11:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-01T03:11:47","slug":"cfp-dickens-day-2017-dickens-and-fantasy-5312017-10142017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2017\/03\/01\/cfp-dickens-day-2017-dickens-and-fantasy-5312017-10142017\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Dickens Day 2017: “Dickens and Fantasy” (5\/31\/2017; 10\/14\/2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dickens Day 2017 \u2013\u00a0Dickens and Fantasy
\nSenate House, London
\n14 October 2017<\/p>\n

Dickens Day 2017 will be considering Dickens and Fantasy.\u00a0Fantasy pervades Dickens\u2019s writing, from the goblins who stole a sexton in his first novel,\u00a0Pickwick Papers<\/em>, to the use of fairy tales in\u00a0Edwin Drood<\/em>, his last. His deeply held commitment to \u2018fancy\u2019, a word from the same root as \u2018fantasy\u2019, and the influence of the\u00a0One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>\u00a0on his work is well known. Dickens also loved theatrical fantasies, such as pantomime with its \u2018gaslight fairies\u2019 as he called them in\u00a0Household Words<\/em>. Dickens often linked scientific and technological developments to fancy and fantasy and delighted in juxtaposing the fantastic and the mundane.<\/p>\n

Dickens peopled his work with fantasists of all sorts, from Mr Dick, Josiah Bounderby and Harold Skimpole to Pleasant Riderhood\u2019s fantasies of sailors and breadfruit and Louisa Gradgrind\u2019s visions in the fire. Oliver Twist\u2019s hallucinatory dream, Fagin in the condemned cell and Dickens\u2019s well-known influence on Sigmund Freud confirm the fertility of Dickens\u2019s work for conceptions of the unconscious and associated mental states. G. H. Lewes claimed that Dickens hallucinated his characters and Robert Buss\u2019s painting Dickens\u2019 Dream<\/em> implies he dreamt them. How does Dickens\u2019s creative process relate to fantasy in both the imaginative and psychological sense?<\/p>\n

In what way do Dickens\u2019s \u2018Christmas\u2019 books fit within the fantasy tradition and what is their relationship to his other works? What was Dickens\u2019s influence on contemporary and subsequent fantasy authors? How does Dickens use fantasy motifs? How does fantasy use Dickensian motifs? These are just some of the questions that the organisers hope to consider on the day.<\/p>\n

They invite proposals for 20-minute papers on any aspect of the theme and warmly encourage Dickensians and scholars of all backgrounds and career stages to apply.<\/p>\n

Topics could include but are not limited to:<\/p>\n

  • Fantasy, fancy and the imagination<\/li>\n
  • Dickens\u2019s \u2018Christmas\u2019 books<\/li>\n
  • Dickens and neo-Victorian fantasy, steampunk and gaslight romances<\/li>\n
  • Dickens, fantasy and science-fiction<\/li>\n
  • Dickens, pantomime and theatrical fantasy<\/li>\n
  • \u2018Gaslight Fairies\u2019: Dickens\u2019s journalism and fantasy<\/li>\n
  • \u2018Frauds on the Fairies\u2019: Dickens and fairy tales<\/li>\n
  • The \u2018romantic side of familiar things\u2019: fantasy and the everyday<\/li>\n
  • \u2018Swart giants, Slaves of the lamp of knowledge\u2019: technology, science and fantasy<\/li>\n
  • Robert Buss\u2019s Dickens\u2019 Dream<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Fantasy and Dickens\u2019s illustrators<\/li>\n
  • One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Tales of the Genii<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Fantasy versus utility<\/li>\n
  • Dickens characters in other fantasy works (e.g. Jasper Fforde\u2019s Thursday Next novels)<\/li>\n
  • Dickens and Television fantasies (e.g.\u00a0Doctor Who<\/em>\u00a0and Tony Jordan\u2019s\u00a0Dickensian<\/em>)<\/li>\n
  • Mr Dick, Harold Skimpole, Mr Bounderby, Pleasant Riderhood, and other Dickensian fantasists<\/li>\n
  • Oliver Twist\u2019s dream\u00a0and other Dickensian dreams, nightmares, delusions, hallucinations and the unconscious<\/li>\n
  • Dickens and Freud<\/li>\n
  • Dickens\u2019s creative process: acting, making faces in the mirror, hearing voices?<\/li>\n
  • \u2018Good Mrs Brown\u2019: Dickens, fantasy and pornography<\/li>\n

    Please send proposals (maximum 500 words) to bethan.carney@gmail.com<\/a>, furneauxh@cardiff.ac.uk<\/a> and benwinyard@hotmail.com<\/a> by 31 May 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Dickens Day 2017 \u2013\u00a0Dickens and Fantasy Senate House, London 14 October 2017 Dickens Day 2017 will be considering Dickens and Fantasy.\u00a0Fantasy pervades Dickens\u2019s writing, from the goblins who stole a sexton in his first novel,\u00a0Pickwick Papers, to the use of fairy tales in\u00a0Edwin Drood, his last. His deeply held commitment to \u2018fancy\u2019, a word from […]<\/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],"tags":[1180,506,536,989,1412,554],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533"}],"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=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}