Ben Robertson (Troy University)
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The Romanticism session seeks papers that examine any aspect of Romanticism, whether English, German, French, or in other languages (although we ask that papers and proposals be primarily in English). We welcome but do not require paper proposals attuned to some facet of the conference theme, "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion.”
Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
· Translations of Romantic works, ideas, or concepts from one language /culture to another
· Textual and manuscript analysis: textual fragments, erasures, revisions, and debates
· Spatial analysis, including of palimpsestic cities and natural spaces, and human/nature/animal interactions
· Memory, forgetting, and misremembering in Romantic works
· The intersection of Romanticism and the environmental humanities
· Rethinking Romanticism via a political, Marxist, queer, or new-Historical lens
· Ruins, disasters, and fragments in connection to aesthetics
· Post-apocalyptic worlds
· Cosmic and transnational voyages