'Nineteenth-Century Poetics of Place'
Friday 22 June 2018
Durham University - Hatfield College
9:00-19:00
#C19PoeticsPlace
This conference will feature twelve papers by researchers from British institutions, a keynote by Assistant Professor Robert St Clair (Dartmouth College), and performances of poetry by Anne Portugal and Professor Michael O'Neill.
The event is supported by Durham University (@durhamIO), Hatfield College (@HatfieldCollege), the Society for French Studies (@french_studies), the Arts and Humanities Research Council's Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Partnership (@Northern_Bridge), the network on 'Contemporary French Poetic Practice' funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (@ahrcpress), and Le Service Enseignement Supérieur, Recherche et Innovation de l'Ambassade de France au Royaume-Uni (@AmbascienceUK).
Article-length versions of a selection of the conference papers will appear in a guest-edited issue of Nineteenth-Century Contexts in early 2019.
On the day preceding the conference, seven of the speakers will deliver a training day at Newcastle University on 'Analysing Poetry' for twenty-five postgraduates from Durham University, Newcastle University, and Queen's University Belfast.
Further information is available from the organiser, Dr Daniel Finch-Race (daniel.a.finch-race@durham.ac.uk).
9:00, Welcome
Dr Daniel Finch-Race (Durham University)
9:15, Panel 1
Dr Thomas Bristow (Durham University) – 'Eco-Elegy: Notes towards a Literary History of Pastoral'
Prof. Stephen Regan (Durham University) – 'Landscapes of Mourning in Nineteenth-Century Poetry'
Prof. Mark Sandy (Durham University) – 'Romantic Poetics and Haunted Landscapes'
*10:30, Break
11:00, Panel 2
Dr David Evans (University of St Andrews) – 'The Rhythmical Landscapes of Parnassus: An Ecocritical Reading of Le Parnasse contemporain'
Dr Nina Rolland (University of Birmingham) – 'Urbanity from Baudelaire's Poetry to French Rap'
Prof. Seth Whidden (University of Oxford) – 'The Distracting Place of the Prose Poem'
*12:15, Lunch
13:15, Keynote
Asst Prof. Robert St Clair (Dartmouth College) – 'Charleville, Nowhere, Paris: The Poetics of Pleasure and Maps to Utopia in the Early Rimbaud'
*14:15, Break
14:45, Panel 3
Asst Prof. Samuel Bootle (Durham University) – 'Re-Wilding Verse: The Forest in Laforgue's Derniers vers'
Dr Mina Gorji (University of Cambridge) – 'Christina Rossetti's Dislocations'
Dr Davide Messina (University of Edinburgh) – 'The Blue Hedge: Leopardi with Rothko'
*16:00, Break
16:30, Panel 4
Dr Caroline Ardrey (University of Birmingham) – 'Plotting Parnasse: The Spatial Networks of the Revue fantaisiste'
Dr Sarah Gubbins (Canterbury Christ Church University) – '(Dis)inheritance: Nerval's Journeys in Verse and Prose'
Dr Heather Williams (University of Wales) – 'The Poetry of Celtic Places'
*17:45, Break
18:15, Poetry
Anne Portugal (Paris) – Et comment nous voilà moins épais (2017)
Prof. Michael O'Neill (Durham University) – Return of the Gift (2018)
18:45, Closing remarks
Dr Daniel Finch-Race (Durham University)