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We invite submissions covering the full range of possible meanings of “distance” in Romantic studies – including (but not limited to)
* Transportation, travel, exploration, emigration, settlement, and repatriation
* Transport, spiritual and material
* Distances real and imagined: writing the remote in time and place and culture
* The distance between social ranks or classes
* Gender and race and generation distances
* Linguistic distances, and cultural and textual translation
* Generic distances: the hierarchies of art
* Literature and science, literature and religion, science and religion
* Overcoming distance: Romantic correspondence
* The country and the city
* The Romantic period itself as a strange country
Those interested in proposing 20-minute papers, or full panels of three speakers and a chair, should submit abstracts of between 250 and 400 words and a 150-word bio by 1 September 2010.
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