The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 17.0356 Thursday, 27 April 2006
From: Douglas Brooks <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Wednesday, 26 Apr 2006 02:19:59 -0500
Subject: CFP: Romantic Shakespeare (8/15/06; Journal)
CFP: Romantic Shakespeare. Shakespeare Yearbook, Winter 2007.
Henry James once noted that to the English an outing to Stratford was
not just a day out, not just a visit to a pretty old town with a famous
dead author, but a pilgrimage to "The Holy of Holies"; the scene itself
of the "nativity." James was being ironic, but to many editors, and
writers, and theatre personalities working in the era of the English
Romantic Movement, grappling with the works of Shakespeare became a
serious devotional duty.
Shakespeare's plays and poems can be said to have become objects of
religious reflection for the Romantics, a kind of mirror up to the
"mystic." For Shakespeare's nineteenth-century British editors, one of
their principal tasks was to prepare readers to find deeper meanings in
Shakespeare's plays and poems, and they viewed the reading of his works
as a cornerstone of English culture. Concomitantly, writers such as
Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats constructed Shakespeare
as a figure from whom it was possible to acquire something like
spiritual and poetic wisdom. For many of these writers, his plays and
poems were foundational to their own efforts to write.
In conjunction with theme of the Winter 2007 issue of the Shakespeare
Yearbook, "Romantic Shakespeare," the journal seeks essays from scholars
of Renaissance or English Romantic literature that explore the editing
or interpretation of Shakespeare and early modern literature in the
Romantic period, as well as the impact of early modern literature on the
literary production of writers associated with the English Romantic
Movement.
Please submit title and 200-word abstract of proposed essays along with
a brief scholarly bio by August 15, 2006 to Douglas A. Brooks
(This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). Digital submissions as e-mail attachments in Rich
Text Format or Microsoft Word only. Do not send CVs. Final essays will
be due May 15, 2007.
The Shakespeare Yearbook is a broadly based international annual of
scholarship relating to Shakespeare, his time, and his impact on later
periods. Maximum length for contributions is 35 double-spaced pages in
Times New Roman 12 point. Illustrations are welcome. Citations should
be formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. The name of the
author/s should only appear in an accompanying cover letter. All essays
are reviewed anonymously by two readers. All essay submissions must be
as digital attachments in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format
Douglas A. Brooks
Editor, Shakespeare Yearbook http://www-english.tamu.edu/pubs/sjb/
Associate Professor, Department of English
http://www-english.tamu.edu/pers/fac/brooks/
Texas A&M University
210 B Blocker MS 4227
College Station, TX 77843-4227
Tel: 979-574-0968; Fax: 979-862-2292
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