[ecrea] CFP Haunted Europe

*Call for Papers*

*Haunted Europe: *

*Continental Connections in English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and
New Media*

*9 - 10 June 2016.*

*Leiden University, The Netherlands*

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Keynote speakers:

Professor Robert Miles (University of Victoria)

Professor Roger Luckhurst (Birkbeck – University of London)

Professor Tanya Krzywinska (Falmouth University)

Lesley Megahey (director of the BBC film /Schalken, the Painter/)

The Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites
proposals for papers that address continental connections in
English-Language Gothic Writing, Film and New Media. The aim of the
conference is to explore the representation and function of continental
European cultures, peoples and nations in English-Language Gothic
culture from the 1790s to the present. While the first wave of British
and Irish Gothic fictions developed and solidified the idea of
continental Europe as a fitting setting for Gothic Romance, little
sustained research has been done so far on the ways in which the
function andrepresentation of the continent in English-language Gothic
culture has developed and changed since the seminal first-wave fictions,
and to what extent these developments and changes have had an impact on
the formation of British and Irish but also Australian and American
national, cultural and individual identities, for instance. The ongoing
debate in British politics and society concerning the possibility of an
EU referendum in 2017 seems to warrant a scholarly investigation
concerning the reputation and representation of continental European
culture in Gothic fiction. Such political realities underscore the
topicality and relevance of the conference theme, and suggest that now
is the right time to explore how, why and to what extent Gothic
representations of continental Europe have played a part in the long,
complex an often difficult (love/hate) relationship between Britain,
Ireland and the European mainland, as well as the still often noted
“special relationship” between Britain and the USA.


Paper topics can include, but are not limited to:

·Continental Europe as a socio-political ‘other’

·Continental magic v. Anglo-American Enlightenment

·Continental rationalism v. British and/or American Sensibility

·The revolutionary continent in English-Language Gothic texts

·The bohemian continent and the British artist

·Haunting the continent: Gothic Tourism

·Continental landscapes and the Gothic labyrinth

·Language barriers in Gothic story-telling

·Visualisations of and interactions with the Continent in British and
American “New-Media” texts

Please send a 200-word abstract, including a working title and brief CV
to (m.newton /at/ hum.leidenuniv.nl) <mailto:(m.newton /at/ hum.leidenuniv.nl)>

*Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 November 2015.*

*Notification of participation: 21 December 2015. *

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