This two-day academic conference will take place between September 8–9, 2017 at St John’s College, Durham University. The conference aims to refocus Neo-Victorian studies by considering reinterpretations and representations of nineteenth-century decadence in works from the Interwar period to the present day.
We invite submissions for papers (15-20 minutes) on Neo-Victorian decadence in a wide range of fields, from literature to film, from sub-cultures to mass media, and everything in between. Abstracts of no more than 250 words will be accepted until July 2, 2017.
Possible themes, approaches and topics might include:
Neo-Victorian Aestheticism
Global Neo-Decadences
Neo-Symbolisms
Cycles of history
Decay and degeneration
Parody and pastiche
Inter-mediality
Decadent steampunk
Wildeana
Beardsleyana
Huysmanian legacies
Sexuality and gender
London
Consuming the Decadents
Afterlives of the flaneur
Neo-Decadent fantasies
Sep 08
2017
Sep 09
2017
Draft paper submission deadline
Registration deadline
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