Call for Papers
ROMANTIC LEGACIESThe 13th Annual Wenshan International Conference
National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei, Taiwan
18-19 November 2016
http://rl2016.com/Keynote Speakers:
Rachel Bowlby, FBA (Comparative Literature, Princeton University/English, University
College, London): “Romantic Walking and Railway Realism”
Arthur Versluis (Religious Studies, Michigan State University): TBA
In his seminal book The Roots of Romanticism (1999), Isaiah Berlin regards Romanticism as “thelargest recent movement to transform the lives and the thoughts of the Western world.” Indeed,Romantic ideas and attitudes—embraced by Goethe, Hegel, Sade, de Staël, Rousseau,
Baudelaire, Wollstonecraft, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Beethoven, Schubert, Poe,Emerson, Thoreau, Dickinson, Turner, and Delacroix, to name but a few—not merely changed
the course of history in the West in the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries but helped to
fashion twentieth-century democracy, environmentalism, Surrealism, fascist nationalism,communist universalism, spiritualism, social liberalism, and so forth in the West as well as in
the East. This two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to bring together academics fromacross the humanities and social sciences to explore the full spectrum of possible Romanticisms,
the germination, maturation, and development of this heritage on both sides of the Atlantic andits afterlife in our global capitalist culture today.
We invite proposals for individual papers or collaborative panels from academics in thehumanities and social sciences to reassess Romanticism and its legacies. Possible topics may
include, but are not limited to:xxxxx
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Esotericism and Spiritualism
Emotion and Neuroesthetics
Gothic, Romantic, and Uncanny
Imagination, Memory, and Childhood
Revolution and Anarchy
Romantic Geographies and the Tourist Gaze
Romantic Victorians
Romanticism as Proto-modernism
Romanticism and Abstract Expressionism
Romanticism and Empire
Romanticism and Its Afterlife in the Far East
Romanticism and Realism
Romanticism and the Environmental Humanities
Romanticism and the Inhumanxxxxxxxxxxx

Romanticism and the Apocalypse
Romanticism and the Everyday
Romanticism and World Literature
Romanticism and the Technological Sublime(Post)Romantic Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis(Post)Romanticism and Book History/Print Culture(Post)Romanticism and Celebrity Culture(Post)Romanticism and Gender Performance
Sensibility and Social Reform
Solitude and Sociability
The Country and the City

Proposals of no more than 300 words should be sent by 15 May 2016 via EasyChair(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rl2016). Should you have any questions orenquiries, please contact us at earn.nccu@gmail.com.
We intend to produce an edited volume from the conference with a major academic publisher
and a special issue for The Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture (www.wreview.org).
This conference is organised by the EARN (Enlightenment and Romanticism Network) inpartnership with The Wenshan Review in the Department of English at NCCU.
Organising Committee:
John Michael Corrigan (NCCU)
Yih-Dau Wu (NCCU)
Shun-liang Chao (NCCU)
Li-hsin Hsu (NCCU)
Jing-fen Su (NCCU)
Emily Sun (NTHU/Barnard College)
Alex Watson (Japan Women’s University)
Laurence Williams (University of Tokyo)