CFP: Dickens and the Visual Imagination. A two-day conference, London and Guildford, 9-10 July 2012

CFP: Dickens and the Visual Imagination. A two-day conference, London and Guildford, 9-10 July 2012

Location:	United Kingdom
Call for Papers Deadline:	2012-09-30 (Archive)
Date Submitted:	2011-06-14
Announcement ID:	185896

An international two-day conference to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012
9-10 July 2012
This conference, hosted by the Paul Mellon Centre in London and the University of Surrey in Guildford, will explore the interfaces between art history and textual scholarship through the work of Charles Dickens.

We invite proposals for panels and individual papers from scholars across disciplines. Topics might include, but are not limited to:

• Dickens and illustration
• The visual arts in Dickens’s work
• Responses to Dickens in the visual arts
• Dickens and performance
• Dickens in the press
• Dickens and new media
• Sciences of vision
• Dickens and commodification
• Dickens and aesthetics
• Observation and spying
• Perspective
• Blindness and the difficulties of representation

Please submit proposals (of up to 250 words) by Friday 30 September 2011 to: g.tate@surrey.ac.uk

Beth Palmer, Greg Tate or Dr Chunjeet Mahn
University of Surrey
Guildford
Surrey
UK
Email: g.tate@surrey.ac.uk
Visit the website at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/english/research/dickens2012/

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