1820: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism: A Stuart Curran Symposium, Oct 29th 2021

Sep 14

1820: Aesthetics, Politics, and the Legacies of Romanticism: A Stuart Curran Symposium

Postponed from the bicentennial year of 2020; now to be held on Zoom on October 29th, 2021

09:30 AM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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9:30 a.m. EST

Introductory remarks: Neil Fraistat (Maryland), President of the Keats-Shelley Association of America

9:45-11:15 a.m. EST

On Keats’s Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (chaired by Gaura Narayan)

Elizabeth Fay (UMass Boston), Feeling Snaky: Fantasms, Potheads, and the Object of Desire

Olivia Loksing Moy (CUNY), “Dulcísima Isabel!” “Mi adorada Fanny”: Julio Cortázar’s 1820 Keats

Karen Swann (Williams), “stubborn and volatile”: Keats’s Angelus

11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. EST

On Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound with Other Poems (chaired by Stuart Curran)

Julie Camarda (Rutgers), Shelley’s “Uncommunicated Lightning”

Yohei Igarashi (Connecticut), The Calculating Principle: Indexing Shelley

William Keach (Brown), The Politics of Hope, Shelley, 1820

2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. EST

On the afterlives and reverberations of 1820 (chaired by Omar Miranda)

Bakary Diaby (Skidmore), After Breaking the Period

Lindsey Eckert (Florida State), Keats and Book Historical Poetics

Eric Eisner (George Mason), Recent American Poetry after Keats (and vice versa)

Emily Sun (Barnard), Isabella’s Echoes

Orrin N. C. Wang (Maryland), Keats, Shelley, and the Parallax View

4:00-4:30 EST

Virtual Tour of the Houghton Library exhibition “1820: Keats, Shelley & Their World” (Leslie Morris, Houghton Library, Harvard)

4:30-5:30 p.m. EST

Undead Poets: Readings and discussion of Romantic legacies (chaired by Stephanie Burt)

Maureen N. McLane (NYU) and Vidyan Ravinthiran (Harvard)

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