The Penn State Center for American Literary Studies will host a state-of-the-field conference for a new academic society, C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, the first academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary studies. The conference will be held from May 20 to 23, 2010, at The Nittany Lion Inn on Penn State’s University Park campus in State College, Pennsylvania. The theme of the conference is "Imagining: A New Century."
The inaugural C19 conference will explore the place of the imagination in the literature and culture of nineteenth-century America. The conference will address both how the imagination functions as a site of rich archival, theoretical, philosophical, and historical analysis, and how the imagination can shape innovative critical and pedagogical methodologies that will take us in new directions for American literary studies.
The full conference program is now available for download!
A very special thank you to our sponsors: the Penn State Department of English, the College of the Liberal Arts, Penn State Institute for the Arts and Humanities, and Penn State Outreach.
*Image courtesy: Thomas Cole (American, born England, 1801-1848), The Architect’s Dream, 1840, Toledo Museum of Art, Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
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