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This symposium aims to investigate cultural exchanges between British, European and American societies in the late 19th and early 20th century, specifically in relation to art (in the form of painting, sculpture, music, or illustration) and literature. Possible topics include:
• Artifice in British, American and European art and literature
• Art, literature, and commodity culture in British, European and American exchanges
• The degenerate subject in British, European and American art and literature
• Transatlantic infection (genre, style, etc)
• American artists and writers in late 19thC/early 20thC Britain and Europe
• European Decadence and American modernity
• The American reception of British and European Decadent writers and artists
• Gender, sexuality and visual culture in transatlantic exchanges
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, together with a brief biographical note listing your affiliation, to: csl-decadence@port.ac.uk
The deadline for submission is 21st February 2010.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Professor Regenia Gagnier (University of Exeter)
Professor David Weir (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York)
The symposium will take place on Saturday 24th of April 2010.
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