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About the Conference
The Novel and its Borders
8-10 July 2008
The novel is not only a literary form occupying a particular generic or cultural territory, but also an aesthetic, historical and social phenomenon that represents, constructs, and transgresses borders. The conference on The Novel and its Borders will engage with the novel in all its aspects, material and theoretical, from the 18th to the 21st century.
Plenary speakers:
- Terry Castle, 'Brunette Coleman and the Lesbianism of Philip Larkin'
- Ian Duncan, 'The Great Book of Nature'
- Jonathan Lamb, 'Persons, Fancies and the Drift of Fiction'
The Novel and its Borders is a three-day international conference organised by The Centre for The Novel in association with the AHRC Institute for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen.
The Conference will be held in King’s College Centre, adjacent to the University’s beautiful sixteenth-century chapel. King’s College is one of the last Medieval universities; it amalgamated with Marischal College in 1860 to form the University of Aberdeen. With its extensive collection of eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century fiction, it forms a perfect setting for a conference on the novel.
Aberdeen is situated on the North Sea coast, and a convenient point of departure for the Highlands and the Orkneys. The airport (with direct flights to London) is only five miles from the university, and there are direct trains to Edinburgh, Glasgow, and other Scottish cities.
Organisers
- Abigail M. Smith a.m.smith@abdn.ac.uk
- Janet Todd j.todd@abdn.ac.uk 01224 272 671
- Alison Lumsden a.lumsden@abdn.ac.uk 01224 273 925
- Adrienne Janus adrienne.janus@abdn.ac.uk 01224 272 675
Centre for the Novel
Department of English · University of Aberdeen · King’s College · Aberdeen AB24 3UB · Scotland UK
Contact: novel.conference@abdn.ac.uk · Telephone: 01224 273 962