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The Novel and its Borders
 
 8-10th July 2008                  
                  
3 day Conference Organised by The Centre for The Novel
University of Aberdeen             

The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century. 		 

Website
 www.abdn.ac.uk/novelconference/		  

Plenary speakers
Jonathan Lamb, Terry Castle

Panel Topics
Panel topics will include the following:
  • Genealogies of the novel
  • Histories of the book
  • Memory, History and Narrative time
  • Transatlantic crossings
  • Travel narratives
  • Libraries, Archives, Markets
  • Borders of the mind
  • Territories of the body, novel sexualities
  • The novel and translation
  • The novel and real/imagined communities
  • The novel and old/new media
  • Materialities of the novel
  • Transport of/in the novel
  • The novel and the city
  • The novel and the nation
  • Technology, science and the novel
  • Realism and its borders (The experimental novel)
  • The novel and its critical fields (Theories of the novel)
Call for papers
Please send 250-word abstracts for 20-minute conference papers to novel.conference@abdn.ac.uk. Proposals for panel topics with participants are also welcome.
 
Organisers
Adrienne Janus, Abigail M Smith and Janet Todd  

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