Call for Papers
James Hogg and His World
Victoria College, University of Toronto (April 9 – 12, 2015)
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The conference title is meant to be understood broadly and covers a wide range of potential topics connected to the lives and/or works of Hogg and his contemporaries as situated in the world of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Britain or as transmitted across the globe from the mid-eighteenth century to the present day.
Papers
might, for example,
· examine the literary representation of various spaces (from micro to
macro) in Hogg’s world: for example, the farm, Ettrick, the Borders, Edinburgh,
Scotland, or empire;
· explore the place of Hogg and / or his contemporaries in the literary circles
of Edinburgh and London, or in the literary marketplace of the Americas;
· address features of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century
culture that significantly impacted the world and works of Hogg and/or his
contemporaries;
· consider the ways by which Hogg and/or his contemporaries introduced and
engaged with local, regional, or global concerns in their works;
· deconstruct the notion of a single “world” in which Hogg and/or his
contemporaries wrote to reveal the rich diversity of mental and/or material texts
that intersect or collide in their works;
· reflect on how Hogg and/or his contemporaries made use of earlier
literary paradigms and practices by adapting them to their own world;
· discuss how the texts of later writers engaged with and adapted the work
of Hogg and/or his contemporaries to make sense of or ‘interpret’ their own world.
For a tentative schedule of the conference, including information on plenary speakers, recitals, and excursions, click the following link on the James Hogg Blog:
