
New Literary History Workshop
Romanticism, Now and Then
April 20-21, 2018
This intensive two-day workshop will bring together literary historians, musicologists, and art historians to reflect on the present, past, and future of Romanticism, as an interpretive project and a field of interdisciplinary inquiry. Hosted by New Literary History and the Institute of the Humanities & Global Cultures at the University of Virginia, the workshop begins with opening remarks on Friday, April 20 at 1:00, and concludes with a discussion on Saturday, April 21, from 5:00-5:30. The event is free and open to the public.
- How has the Romanticist interpretive project developed in recent decades, particularly in dialogue with literary theory and historiography?
- In this bicentennial era of the Romantic period, what connections and modes of remembering obtain, and to what ends?
- In what senses does Romanticism imply a method, a form, a politics?
- What are the abiding keywords, concepts, and challenges of Romanticism within and across disciplines, and what questions or arenas of thought have ceased to be central?
- What futures do you see for Romanticism as a conceptual and/or professional field?
Friday April 20
Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture
Wilson Hall Room 142
1:00-1:15 Opening remarks
Bruce Holsinger and Andrew Stauffer
New Literary History and Department of English, University of Virginia
1:15-2:15 “Romantic Difficulty”
Anahid Nersessian
Department of English, UCLA
2:30-3:30 “Le romantisme en Haïti: History, Historiography, Form”
Marlene Daut
Program in American Studies & Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American and African Studies, University of Virginia
3:45-4:45 “The Question of Sensibility”
James Chandler
Department of English, University of Chicago
Saturday April 21
Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture
Wilson Hall Room 142
9:30-10:30 “The Arabesque from Kant to Comics”
Cordula Grewe
Department of Art History, Indiana University
10:45-11:45 “Romantic Musical Aesthetics and the Transmigration of Soul”
Holly Watkins
Department of Musicology, Eastman School of Music and University of Rochester
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:30 “Romantic Subjects and Iambic Laws: Episodes in the Early History of Contract Negotiations”
Jerome McGann
Department of English, University of Virginia
2:45-3:45 “Kindred Spirits: Transatlantic Romantic Poetics”
Virginia Jackson
Departments of English and Comparative Literature, UC-Irvine
4:00-5:00 “Romanticism and the Avowal of Coevalness”
Tristram Wolff
Departments of English and Comparative Literature, Northwestern University
5:00-5:30 Closing discussion
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