Call for Papers
Following the success of their first conference in York in September 2006 the Italian and British Societies for Eighteenth-Century Studies are proud to announce the second in their series of Anglo-Italian conferences.

The focus of the conference will be the literary and art theories as located in a variety of sources:

• FORMAL (treatises, prefaces, etc.) and
• INFORMAL (book reviews, letters, statements within novels etc.);
• EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT in the aesthetic artefacts themselves (the novel, the essay, poetry, forms of music and painting, drama, landscape gardening, architecture, etc.).

Papers are invited on, inter alia, the following topics in relation to eighteenth century theories of discourse, literature and the arts:

• Fiction, History, the Marketplace, Sensibility.
• Changes in the material support of texts (including the standardization of the printed page, the new frontispiece, the new book covers, dashes and marks, etc),
• New Reading Practices (the "reading revolution"),
• the Picturesque,
•  Aspects of Cognition and the "passions" (in relation to production and fruition),
• Cultural and Institutional attitudes towards aesthetic artefacts and Orality and Literacy.

Although desirable, the comparative and reception/circulation approaches are by no means prerequisites.

Proposals are invited for 20-minute papers. Abstracts of no more than 200 words should be sent by email to Annamaria Lamarra (anmalam@libero.it) and to Rosamaria Loretelli (loretell@unina.it). Papers are acceptable in either Italian or English.

No Conference fee is payable

The deadline for abstracts is 20th December 2008

Further Information
For information contact Dr. Daniela Mangione (d.mangione@fastwebnet.it)

Venue, Travel and Accommodation
The venue for the Conference represents an ideal opportunity for scholars to interact within an environment of almost unequalled beauty and elegance.

Villa Orlandi, Anacapri (www.centrocongressi.unina.it and select Capri) Capri is quickly and cheaply reached from Naples (www.porto.napoli.it/it/servizi/PartenzeBeverello.php), to which there are cheap flights from a number of English airports including Birmingham, Bristol, East Midlands, London Gatwick, London Stansted and Manchester

The bus fare from the airport to Molo Beverello is 3 Euros – taxi fixed fare16 Euros.

Fast trains (eurostar alta velocità) from Rome to Naples take 1.30 hour and are frequent).

For hotels offering conference prices  try
www.centrocongressi.unina.it  When booking mention Villa Orlandi.

Bed and Breakfast ( www.capri.it/it/bed-breakfast ) accommodation is not expensive out of season and is expected to be around 120 Euros and 90 Euros respectively per room per night. Frequent buses connect Anacapri to the port.