C19: The society of nineteenth-century americanists

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The Penn State Center for American Literary Studies will host a state-of-the-field conference, "Imagining: A New Century," for a new international academic society founded in 2008. The society is called C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, and it is the first and only academic organization dedicated to nineteenth-century American literary studies. We will inaugurate C19 with a conference at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn, May 20-23, 2010.

The conference will address the theme and role of the imagination in the literature and culture (including visual, print, scientific, military, maritime, and commercial culture) of nineteenth-century America. The value of the conference to scholars, students, and those interested in the humanities will be the development of new and innovative methodologies, both pedagogical and scholarly, for the intra- and inter-disciplinary study of the long American nineteenth century (1789-1914). The conference will also launch an electronic journal, itself called C19, which will be the forum for disseminating, debating, and implementing these new methodologies. In initiating the society C19 with "Imagining: A New Century," we aim to animate conversations about the imagination in terms of textual production, aesthetics, community formation, and ethical democracy.

 

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