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CALL FOR PAPERS ENCHANTED EDWARDIANS THIRD ANNUAL CONF CALL FOR PAPERS ENCHANTED EDWARDIANS THIRD ANNUAL CONF

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CALL FOR PAPERS ENCHANTED EDWARDIANS THIRD ANNUAL CONF - PPT Presentation

Sarah Turner Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art The Hills are empty now and all the People of the Hills are gone Im the only one left Im Puck the oldest Old Thing in England very much at your service if if you care to have anything to do ID: 83034

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�� &#x/MCI; 0 ;&#x/MCI; 0 ;CALL FOR PAPERS ENCHANTED EDWARDIANSTHIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THEEDWARDIAN CULTURE NETWORKUNIVERSITY �� &#x/MCI; 2 ;&#x/MCI; 2 ; Art as a process of enchantment: enchantment as a metaphor for art; the legacy of PreRaphaelitism and Symbolism in art; the representation, or musical evocation, of enchanted worlds.Childhood: childhood as an enchanted land; representations and understandings of childhood in Edwardian culture and psychology; Kenneth Grahame, J. M. Barrieand the 'GoldenAge' of children's literature.Enchanted and Haunted Spaces: Britain as an 'enchanted isle'; the landscape as a culmination of historically enchantedlayers; Conan Doyle and the concept of ‘lost worlds’; echoesof ‘Eden’, ‘Cockaigne’ and ‘Arcadia’.Fairytales and Mythologies: fantasy literature in the Edwardian age; appropriation of mythological stories;W.B. Yeats andthe Celtic Revival.Psychologies: psychoanalysis and the dreamworld; Freud and British culture; art and interiority.Science and Technology: new inventionsand breakthroughs such as the motor car, air travel, quantum theory, xray, Marconi and the transAtlantictelegraph; science fiction; timetravelSensuality and the ‘Other': enchantment and exoticism; the enchantment of other cultures; Omar Khayyam and the Arabian Nights; the Edwardian interest in Chinese, Indian, and Japanese cultures.Spirituality and the Supernatural: theosophy; mysticism; witchcraft and the occult; ghost stories; séances; theological modernism; the relationship between culture and religion; James Frazer and the ‘The Golden Bough’Disenchantment: enchantment and its antitheses; fantasy versus realism; the magical and the prosaic; imagination and pragmatism.Proposals should be sent to edwardianculture@hotmail.co.uk no later than December 5 2014. For more about the Edwardian Culture Network, including previous conferences and events, see www.edwardianculture.com