CALL FOR PAPERS
‘The Victorians and Memory’
Australasian Victorian Studies Association Annual
Conference
3 – 5 February, 2015
3 – 5 February, 2015
University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
The keynote speaker will be Dr Robert Douglas-Fairhurst of
Magdalen College, Oxford, whose recent publications include Becoming Dickens
(Harvard UP, 2011) and Tennyson Among the Poets (ed., OUP, 2009).
From Tennyson’s ‘In Memoriam A.H.H’ to Freud’s theory of
repressed memory, the discourse of memory abounds in the literature and culture
of the Victorian period. Meanwhile the cultural legacy of the era has been
remembered in very different ways. In 1918 Ezra Pound claimed that ‘the odour
of Victoriana is so unpleasant ... that we are content to leave the past where
we find it’ - but in the contemporary world, the memory of the period has been
re-energised and continues to capture our imagination.
Offers of 20-minute papers related to the conference theme
are invited from scholars in any discipline. Topics covered may include, but
are not restricted to:
• Post-Victorian
memories of the Victorians - in literature, art, architecture, history, and on
screen
• Victorians’
memories of earlier periods – in their literature, art, architecture, history
• Memory in
biography and autobiography
• Memory and
forgetting
• The political
deployment of memory
• The poetry of
memory and memorialisation
• Memory and
colonialism / post-colonialism
• Memories of
war
• Neo-Victorian
fiction and memory
• The anxiety of
influence
Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent to
AVSA2015@auckland.ac.nz by Monday 6
October.
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