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CALL FOR PAPERS:  200 YEARS OF SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
a Two Day Conference
SCHOOL OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS,
9–10 SEPTEMBER 2011

Keynote speakers:

Kathryn Sutherland (St Anne’s College, Oxford) 

and

Paula Byrne (author of the new Harper Collins Jane Austen biography).

‘I am never too busy to think of S&S’, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra in April 1811. The year saw the publication of her first novel and to mark the anniversary, we are hosting a conference that reflects upon two hundred years of readership and opens up new interpretations of the novel. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers and round table panels on any aspect of the novel.

Possible topics may include but are not limited to:

• Social and historical context
• Reception
• Tradition of Sensibility/contemporary aesthetic theory
• Literary influences
• Sibling relationships
• Feminist readings
• Adaptations and appropriations
• Re-writings and sequels
• The novel’s place in the canon

Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to the conference organisers, Marina Cano López and Rose Pimentel, at 200sensibilities [at] gmail [dot] com

Please also email us with any questions at the above address. The deadline for proposals is 30 June 2011

For more information, please visit:

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/200sensibilities 

University of St. Andrews