[Commlist] CFP: 'The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian'

*The Neo-Victorian and the Late-Victorian:
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***Texts, Media, Politics*


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*September 2021*


The last few decades have witnessed an increasing interest in 
revisiting, reproducing or rewriting various aspects of 
nineteenth-century culture, particularly that of the late Victorian 
period, whether in the form of neo-Victorian literature, steampunk, 
media archaeology, fashion, documentaries and period dramas, among others.


This trend has received various different interpretations, either as 
part of the recycling of past periods, styles and texts characteristic 
of postmodernism of the 1980s, of the ‘memory boom’ of the 1990s and the 
ensuing culture of commemoration, anniversaries and memorialisation, or 
the most recent signs of a widespread imperial nostalgia, evident not 
just in various media texts, such as film or television, but also in 
contemporary political realities like Brexit.


These are only some of the symptoms of this widespread trend and only 
some instances of the critical approaches that they have received, and 
this two-day conference seeks to explore this trend from a diverse range 
of disciplinary, theoretical and methodological perspectives.


The specific focus of the conference is on papers that address the 
dialectic relationship between the two historical periods. We are 
particularly interested in the ways in which the late-Victorian is 
re-envisioned and reconceptualised within the neo-Victorian.


The list below is only indicative of areas for which we welcome 
submission of abstracts:

  * neo-Victorianism in literature, film and television
  * Gothic horror, then and now: literature, film, television and gaming
  * steampunk (literature, art, fashion, subculture)
  * contemporary politics and imperial nostalgia (Empire 2.0, Global
    Britain, etc.)
  * media archaeology, archive studies, museums and the late Victorian
    ‘frenzy of the visible’
  * contemporary sexual politics and late Victorian queer cultures
  * The New Woman and the suffragette movement
  * contemporary terrorism and the 1890s
  * crime, detection and punishment
  * nostalgia and material culture: the yearning for the handmade

Current Keynote Spaker:
Associate Professor Dr Claire Nally 
<https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/n/claire-nally/>(Northumbria 
University), author of /Steampunk: Gender, Subculture and the 
Neo-Victorian/(2019).
(more keynote speakers tba)

The current plan is still to run the conference on campus but, if 
necessary, it will take place virtually. Final plans will be announced 
later in the academic year.


Please send 300-word abstracts accompanied by a 90-word bio to 
conference organisers Victoria Margree 
<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/vicky-margree> and Aris 
Mousoutzanis 
<https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/aris-mousoutzanis> by 27 May 
2020 at (neovictorian /at/ brighton.ac.uk) <mailto:(neovictorian /at/ brighton.ac.uk)>


Follow the conference blog <http://blogs.brighton.ac.uk/neovictorian/cfp/>.


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