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The
40th Anniversary
Wordsworth Summer
Conference, 2010
Wednesday 28
July to
Saturday 7 August, at Forest Side, Grasmere, Cumbria
Blencathra:
Photo Richard Gravil |
The Wordsworth Summer Conference,
founded by Richard Wordsworth in 1970, remains the least
utilitarian, most congenial,
most conversational, and least sedentary conference in
the academic world.
It offers a unique blend of full-scale lectures,
well-spaced papers with generous discussion time, and a significant
experience of Grasmere and Lakeland. |
Seamus Heaney Poetry Reading
St Oswald's Church Grasmere
Sunday 1 August
8.30 p.m.
To book for this
event, if not a member of the
conference, please send an s.a.e. to
Wordsworth
Conference, Tirril Hall, Penrith CA10 2JE
with a cheque
for £7.50 per person payable to The Wordsworth Conference
Foundation
Bookings must arrive by
Monday 26 July
2010.
Part 1 Lectures
Kenneth
R. Johnston
Wordsworth at 40: Memoirs of a Lost
Generation
Simon
Bainbridge
‘The power of hills’: Romantic Mountaineering
Julie
Carlson
On Literary Fractures
Angela Esterhammer
Coleridge's ‘The Improvisatore’: Poetry,
Performance, and Remediation
Jeffrey N Cox
Cockney ‘Excursions’
Gary
Harrison
Wordsworth, Clare and the Poetics of Acknowledgment
Poetry
Reading
Seamus
Heaney in St Oswald's Church
Sunday
1 August at 8.30 pm
(there is an admission charge for this event)
Guests of Honour
John Beer (Cambridge)
Marilyn Gaull (Editorial
Institute, Boston
University)
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Part 2 Lectures
Alan Richardson
Neuroscience and
‘Romantic’ Imagination
Damian Walford Davies
Romantic
Hydrography: The Tides
of ‘Tintern Abbey’
Anthony Harding
The Fate of
Reading in the Regency
David Chandler
‘Home Sweet
Home’: Sex and Popular Romanticism
Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey
‘Kubla Khan’ and
Orientalism
Seamus Perry
Wordsworth's Pluralism
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Downloadable Conference Programme
Advice on Getting to Grasmere
Main
Features
Stay 5
or 10 nights
7 excursions,
7 fell-walks, 6 to 14 lower level walks
12
keynote lectures and 34 research papers
Part 1 of the
celebratory 40th anniversary conference concludes with a public poetry
reading by Seamus Heaney. Part 2 opens with a Richard Wordsworth
Conference Dinner, with John Beer, Marilyn Gaull and Molly Lefebure
as Guest Speakers (for resident participants only).
For full details of accommodation and prices please download the
pdf Prospectus
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Either 4 or 9 full days in Grasmere (two parts, of 5 nights each, with a
changeover day)
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Registration fee: £205 for both parts; £155 for one part
(rising to £225/170 on 28 April):
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Full Board Hotel prices for 10 nights: from £450 to £640
shared, £620 to £820 single (for details see Prospectus)
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Youth Hostel prices (six two-bedded rooms have been reserved): half board £188 for 5 nights; £375
for 10 nights (£210 or £424 with packed lunches). These
prices include one dinner at the conference hotel in each
part of the conference.
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Some apartments for three may be available at £550 per
person (full board)
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Excursions to
(e.g.) Lanercost Priory, Blackwell,
St. Bees, Holker Hall
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Up
to seventy
miles of fell walking including (probably) Pillar and
Helvellyn
Registration
All
participants must register for the whole of Part 1, or Part 2, or
Both and should do so by 27 April 2010. Fees will rise
on 28 April.
Because both resident and non-resident places are very limited, early registration is advised.
Residential
costs are payable in full
by 25 May, after which date refunds of fees or other costs
cannot be guaranteed (participants are therefore advised to take out
travel insurance).
Contributions may take the form of
short papers (2750 words; 25 minutes) which are scheduled at two papers to a
session or
workshops (short handout-based presentations leading into an
hour or more of discussion). Papers or workshops may address any
aspect of British Romantic Studies, including comparative studies,
though it is worth noting that 2010 is the bicentenary of the famous
Wordsworth-Coleridge 'Quarrel'. Proposals (250–300 words)
will be considered by at least two members of the Board, and should
include, in the same file, a brief c.v. (in total, no more than 2
sides of A4). Proposals
should be submitted by email attachment, in Word, to the Director by 23 March 2010.
It is not the culture
of this conference that only paper readers attend, and you should
bear in mind that although papers may not be finally decided until April,
accommodation could well be booked up by that time by
non-presenters.
14 Bursaries and
Postdoctoral Fellowships are offered for this conference.
Further information may be
obtained at any time from
Richard and Fiona Gravil
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wordsworth_conferences@hotmail.co.uk
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