HARDY FORUM ARCHIVE H20/97 12/31/97 CALLS FOR PAPERS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ======================================================================= Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 12:17:50 -0800 To: Bronte@world.std.com, grainger@interlog.com, HARDY-L@mailhost1.csusm.edu, lmoskowi@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us, libmgmt@world.std.com, cfp@english.upenn.edu From: Cheap Suit Subject: CFP: FORMS OF VICTORIAN VIOLENCE PLEASE POST The Dickens Project is requesting submissions for a conference, "Forms of Victorian Violence," August 6-9, 1998 at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Though often regarded as a a period of near equanimity, an "open secret" about the Victorian age was the relative ubiquity of violence in its society. From the debate over public executions, to the ways the poor were marshalled and contained, to the running of empire, to keeping order in the classroom, to personal crises over the definition and control of the self, the Victorians were fascinated with and informed by cultures of violence. We invite individual and panel proposals on all aspects violence and its relationship to the Victorian era. Send one or two page proposals by February 1, 1998 to Joseph Childers, Center for Ideas and Society, University of California--Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521. Possible Topics include: Child Abuse Domestic Violence Homophobia Violence and Public Opinion Revolutions Mutinies Crime and Punishment Discipline Desire and its Manifestations Victoria's Dirty Little Wars Twentieth-Century Representations of Victorian Violence Violation and Tradition Repression Masculinity Englishness The Military Animal Rights Textual Transgression Drunkenness Racial and Ethnic Violence For More information on the Dickens Project, please visit: http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/Dickens.Project.Home.html ********** Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 11:51:56 -0800 From: Betty and/or John Cortus Subject: Victorian Poetry on line Hilary Attfield of Victorian Poetry, Dept. of English, West Virginia University, Morgantown, VW gave me permission to post this interesting piece of information. Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu > We've just launched _Victorian Poetry_ online with the Spring 1997 issue >(which is also in the mail for those subscribers out there). > >http://vp.engl.wvu.edu > > For the four issues of Vol 35 (1997) you can all browse to your hearts' >content, and, since we're a little behind this will mean on into 1998. In >the next volume year, we will have to charge for access to the electronic >issue. For now, however, it's free. > A highlight of the electronic issue is an introductory hypertext article >by George Landow. The regular issue contain articles on D. G. Rossetti by >James Barclay, on Arnold by James Najarian, on Swinburne by Allison Pease, >on Tennyson by Catherine Harland, on Morris by Norman Talbot, on Christina >Rossetti by Dawn Henwood. Several brief articles and a review of _The >Letters of Matthew Arnold, vol. 1_ round out the issue. ********** From: Martin Ray Date: Thu, 27 Nov 1997 09:38:19 +0000 (GMT) 27 November A Death-Day Recalled ---------------------- Dr Martin Ray University of Aberdeen m.ray@abdn.ac.uk ********** From: Liz Hedgecock Subject: Conference announcement: Victorian Genres (24/1/98, UK) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 14:13:55 +0000 (GMT) If interested, please reply privately to this message: Victorian Genres A one-day international conference University of Liverpool Saturday 24th January 1998 Theatre, school stories, colonialism, nonsense, melodrama, auto/biography, periodicals, science, adventure naratives, criticism, Gothic, realism, quilts and more... £15 waged ~ £12 concessions ~ lunch included Booking forms, programmes and further information available from: Liz Hedgecock / Joanne Knowles E.K.Hedgecock@liv.ac.uk / jknowles@liv.ac.uk WOT LARKS! ---------------------- Liz Hedgecock E.K.Hedgecock@liv.ac.uk For the Snark was a Boojum, you see ********** From: Martin Ray Subject: Happy holidays Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 09:46:07 +0000 (GMT) In reply to Rosemarie's kind words, may I say how grateful I am to her for all her indefatigable work this year. We are all indebted to her for making the last few months such an exciting and thoroughly enjoyable time. Thank you, Rosemarie! May all of you in THSNA have much festive cheer. With all best wshes Martin ---------------------- Dr Martin Ray University of Aberdeen m.ray@abdn.ac.uk ********** Date: Wed, 17 Dec 1997 8:22 am EDT (12:22:25 UT) From: "Robert C. Schweik Dr" Subject: Cheers for Rosemarie Morgan! Dear Hardy-L Members: We, all members of the THSNA, and Hardy scholars around the world owe an incalculable debt to Rosemarie Morgan for the astonishing achievement she has had in organizing and guiding the THSNA in the last eight months. It scarcely seems possible that in such a short time she has accomplished so much. I think I know at least three of the elements that have gone to make her work so successful. First-- above all--solid scholarship--the indispensable basis for the kind of leadership she's provided. Second, extraordinarily dilligent and selfless hard work--and on this score I can testify perhaps more than anyone else because I know of how much she has contributed to the "Links" pages. And three, her truly remarkable ability to involve others in the THSNA enterprise and the warm and generous spirit in which she works with us all. So here's to Rosemarie! May she flourish! Bob Robert Schweik Department of English State University College Fredonia, NY 14063 schweik@fredonia.edu ********** Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:52:02 From: "William W. Morgan" Subject: Presentation Copy of Tess for Sale Some last-minute holiday shopping to do for that Hardy enthusiast on your list? I see that Lame Duck Books in Jamaica Plain, MA (617-522-7827) is offering Alfred Austin's copy of the first edition, first impression of Tess, inscribed by Hardy to Austin, for a mere $75,000. That's right: three zeros. Just tell them you'd like item 126 in their Catalogue #34, Literary First Editions. I'll waive my usual finder's fee, since it's the holiday season. Happy holidays, everyone. Bill Morgan William W. Morgan Department of English--4240 Illinois State University 603 N. School St. Normal, IL 61790-4240 Normal, IL 61761 (309) 438-7158 (309) 452-1204 ********** Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:46:36 -0800 From: Betty Cortus Subject: A Mellstock Christmas As William Dewy said "in a loud clear voice" every year for forty years: "A merry Christmas to ye!" _Under the Greenwood Tree_ Chapter IV Betty Cortus hardycor@mailhost2.csusm.edu **********