A TWO-DAY CONFERENCE ON THE WORKS OF

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY &

MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY

LONDON

15-16 SEPTEMBER 2017

AcollaborationinvolvingacademicsfromtheUniversitiesofYork,Leeds,Sheffield,

NewcastleandLiverpool,andgenerouslysupportedby:

CONFERENCEPROGRAMME

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TABLEOFCONTENTSOuraim.................................................................................................................................3

Location(s)...........................................................................................................................4

Organisers............................................................................................................................4

AdvisoryBoard...................................................................................................................4

Sponsors...............................................................................................................................4

Bursariesforpostgraduates/EarlyCareerResearchers......................................5

Informationonthekeynotespeakers........................................................................6

ConferenceSchedule........................................................................................................7

DetailedSchedulewithPanels......................................................................................8Friday15September.................................................................................................................8Saturday16September.........................................................................................................12

Artexhibition...................................................................................................................15

Contact...............................................................................................................................16

Acknowledgements........................................................................................................16

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OURAIM

Thistwo-dayconference,supportedbytheCentreforEighteenthCenturyStudies,UniversityofYork,celebratesthewritingsoftwomajorauthorsfromtheRomanticPeriod:PercyByssheShelley(PBS)andMaryWollstonecraftShelley(MWS).Acontinuingscholarlyfascinationwithallthings'Shelley'isdueinparttotheunprecedentedaccesswenowhavetotheirtexts(inannotatedscholarlyeditions)andmanuscripts(presentedinfacsimileandtranscript).TheShelleys'worksaremorereadilyavailablethaneverbefore.Similarly,thelackofanannualorevenfrequentconferencededicatedtoPBS(comparabletothosethatexistforotherRomanticwriters)haspromptedthedecisiontoorganisethiseventfor2017.Excitinglyitisnow,inthefirstpartofthe21stcentury,thatthemostdetailedcomprehensiveeditionsofPBS'sworksareinproduction(TheCompletePoetryofPercyByssheShelleyed.DonaldReiman,NeilFraistatandNoraCrookisalreadywelladvanced,withVolVIIpublishedsoon,andThePoemsofShelleyed.KelvinEverest,G.M.Matthews,MichaelRossingtonandJackDonovanisnearingcompletion).PreviousconferencesatGregynogin1978,1980,and1992andthePercyShelleyBicentennialConferenceinNewYorkin1992haveprovidedawonderfullegacyforfutureShelleyanacademics,anditisinthespiritoftheseeventsthatwewillpresentTheShelleyConference2017.WeincludeMWSinthisnewconference,asshealsodoesnothaveherownregularacademicevent.However,therecentconference'BeyondFrankenstein'sShadow'(Nancy,France,2016)focusedspecificallyonMWS,andtheemphasisplacedonherworkatthe'Summerof1816'conference(Sheffield,2016)indicatedthatherroleonthemainstageofRomanticismisincreasinglyappreciated.Itisforthesereasonsthatthe'Shelley'oftheconferencetitleisleftambiguous.TheShelleysareincreasinglyseenasacollaborativeliterarypartnership,andmoderncriticismreinforcestheimportanceofreadingtheirworksinparallel.Thenuancesofthis,however,arefarfromsimple,andthisstatementdoesnotimplythereisanythinglikeasenseofeitherconsistent'unity'or'conflict'whenconsideringtheShelleys'literaryrelationship.ThisisthekindofissuewhichwillbeexploredatTheShelleyConference2017.

Becauseofthesignificantinterestintheconferencewehaveextendedtheeventtotwodays.MultipleparallelpanelsessionshaveallowedustopresentawiderangeofexcitingpapersdeliveredbyresearchersfromtheUK,Europe,andbeyond,aswellasthreeplenarytalksbyeminentShelleyscholars.

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LOCATION(S)AllparallelpanelsandplenarytalkswilltakeplaceinSenateHouse:TheInstituteofEnglishStudiesSchoolofAdvancedStudyUniversityofLondonSenateHouseMaletStreetLondonWC1E7HU

ThebuildingisashortwalkfrombothEustonandKing’sCrossStPancrasUndergroundandNationalRailtrainstations.

ThenearestUndergroundstationisRussellSquare.

ORGANISERSDr.AnnaMercer(UniversityofYork)

HarrieNeal(UniversityofYork)

ADVISORYBOARDProf.KelvinEverest(UniversityofLiverpool)

Prof.MichaelRossington(NewcastleUniversity)

SPONSORS

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BURSARIESFORPOSTGRADUATES/EARLYCAREERRESEARCHERS

PostgraduatesandEarlyCareerResearchersfromtheWhiteRoseCollegeoftheArtsandHumanities(WRoCAH)Universities–thatis,theUniversityofLeeds,theUniversityofSheffield,andtheUniversityofYork–areeligibleforatravelbursarytohelpthemattendthiseventinLondon.

Wehaveuptotwentystudentbursariesat£30each.

ECRsshouldbewithin5yearsoftheirPhDaward.

Toapply:contactHarrieNeal(hn553@york.ac.uk)withashortbioandastatementaboutyourresearch(300wordsmax).Winnersofthesebursarieswillbeannouncedattheconference.Makesuretokeepallyourreceipts.

WeregretthatwecannotofferbursariestostudentsandECRsfromotheruniversities,butwehopethatthereducedregistrationfeefortheseindividualswillbebeneficial.

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INFORMATIONONTHEKEYNOTESPEAKERS

Prof.NoraCrook

NoraCrookisEmeritusProfessoratAngliaRuskinUniversityinCambridge.Herchiefpublicationsincludetheco-authoredShelley'sVenomedMelody(CambridgeUniversityPress1986),amonographonShelleyandmedicine,whichwasfollowedbyKipling'sMythsofLoveandDeath(Macmillan,1990)andnumerousjournalarticlesandchapters.HerinternationalreputationwasestablishedbyhertextualworkontheShelleysbetween1991-2002.EditionsoftwoofP.B.Shelley'snotebooksintheBodleianLibraryalternatedwithhergeneraleditorshipoftwelvevolumesofMaryShelley'sworks,whichincludedherowneditionsofFrankensteinandValperga.Currentlysheisco-generaleditorofthemulti-volumeCompletePoetryofPercyByssheShelley(JohnsHopkins,2000onward),withspecialresponsibilityforpoemseditedbyMaryShelleyafterP.B.Shelley'sdeath.

Prof.KelvinEverest

KelvinEverestisEmeritusBradleyProfessorofModernLiteratureattheUniversityofLiverpool,wherehealsoservedasPro-Vice-Chancellor.HehaspublishedwidelyonEnglishRomanticism,andhas(withothers)editedtheCompletePoemsofShelleyfortheLongmanAnnotatedEnglishPoetsseries(5volumes,4publishedandthefifthandfinalvolumeexpected2019).

Prof.MichaelO’Neill

MichaelO’NeillisProfessorofEnglishatDurhamUniversity.ProfessorO’NeillhaspublishedonRomanticliterature,especiallytheworkofPercyByssheShelley,onVictorianpoetry,andonanarrayofBritish,Irish,andAmericantwentieth-andtwenty-first-centurypoets.Hisresearchhasconcentratedonquestionsofliteraryachievementandofpoeticinfluence,dialogue,andlegacy.Bookspublishedrelativelyrecentlyinclude(withMichaelD.Hurley)PoeticForm(CUP,2012),and,co-editedwithAnthonyHoweandwiththeassistanceofMadeleineCallaghan,TheOxfordHandbookofPercyByssheShelley(2013;paperbacked2017).HisthirdcollectionofpoemsGangsofShadowwaspublishedbyArcin2014andhiseditedcollectionofessaysJohnKeatsinContextappearedfromCambridgeUniversityPressin2017.Heisanassociateeditoronthemulti-volumeJohnsHopkinseditionofShelley'spoetry.Thethirdvolumeappearedin2012.Heisco-editing(withTimothyWebb)TheProseofPercyByssheShelley1818-1822forOUP.

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CONFERENCESCHEDULE

Day1:Friday15September

9:00–9:30 Registration

9:30–9:45 Introduction(AnnaMercer)

9:45–11:00 Plenary1(NoraCrook)

11:00–11:30 Coffee/tea

11:30–13:00 ParallelpanelssessionA

13:00–14:00 Lunch

(13:30optionalinformalpanelbyMichaelRossingtonandNoraCrookoncurrenteditions)

14:00–15:30 ParallelpanelssessionB

15:30–16:00 Coffee/tea

16:00–17:15 Plenary2(KelvinEverest)

17:15–18:30 Winereception(allwelcome)

19:00tolate ConferenceDinner(mustbepre-booked)

Day2:Saturday16September

9:00–10:30 ParallelpanelssessionC

10:30–11:00 Coffee/teaandlightsnack

11:00-12.30 ParallelpanelssessionD

12:30–13.45 Plenary3(MichaelO’Neill)

13:45–14:00 Closingremarks(AnnaMercerandHarrieNeal)

14:00onwards InformalgatheringandlunchnearKing’sCross

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DETAILEDSCHEDULEWITHPANELS

FRIDAY15SEPTEMBER

Registration

9:00–9:30

Introduction

9:30–9:45,AnnaMercer

CourtRoom

PLENARY1

9:45–11:00,NoraCrook(AngliaRuskinUniversity)‘MaryShelley’sEditingofPercyByssheShelley’

IntroducedbyHarrieNeal

CourtRoom

PARALLELPANELSSESSIONA

11:30-13:00,variousrooms

A1:‘TheShelleys’PhilosophiesinProse’(Chair:CarlyStevenson)RoomG34

CatherineRedford(UniversityofOxford)‘TheLastMan:ASpectralText’PaulStephens(UniversityofOxford)‘P.B.ShelleyandthePhilosophyofDebt’

MollyDwyer(MendocinoCollege)‘FrankensteinandtheEmergentFeminine’

A2:‘Revisionsandediting’(Chair:AlanWeinberg)RoomG3

MadeleineCallaghan(UniversityofSheffield)‘“Sweetvisionsinsolitude”:P.B.Shelley’sRejectedOpeningofLaonandCythna’

ByssheInigoCoffey(UniversityofExeter)‘VerseUnderErasure:ShelleyandtheEnergiesofCancellation’

AmandaBlakeDavis(UniversityofSheffield)‘“ThatImayreadhiswrittensoul”:MaryShelley’sEditorialFramingofPrometheusUnbound’

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A3:‘Influencesandconnections’(Chair:SharonRuston)RoomG4

ValentinaVarinelli(NewcastleUniversity)‘NewlightsontheShelleys’Pisancircle’

RiekoSuzuki(WasdeaUniversity)‘ShelleysandBrownings’

AntonellaBraidaLaplace(UniversitédeLorraine)‘MmedeStaël’sInfluenceonPercyByssheShelleyandMaryWollstonecraftShelley:Empowering(Women’s)PoliticsthroughLiterature’

A4:‘Shelley’slaterreception’(Chair:KelvinEverest)RoomG7

ArgyrosI.Protopapas(UniversityofAthens/GreekMinistryofEducation)‘Twenty-firstCenturyPerspectivesonP.B.ShelleyandMechanism’

LawrenceMasakazuYoneta(ShirayuriUniversity)‘BeyondtheDialecticsofMetaphysicsandHistoricity-(Re)constructingthe“Physical”Shelley’

MarcoCanani(UniversitàdegliStudidiMilano)‘TheCenciandItsManyItalianAfterlives.ALitmusTestofPercyByssheShelleyandCulturalMemoryintheNineteenthCentury’

LUNCH

13:00–14:00

JesselRoom

13:30optional:informalpanelbyMichaelRossingtonandNoraCrookoncurrenteditions.RoomG7

Prof.MichaelRossingtoniseditingpoemsfor,andcoordinating,thefifthandfinalvolumeoftheLongmanAnnotatedEnglishPoetseditionof‘ThePoemsofShelley’(Routledge)withWillBowers,JackDonovan,KelvinEverestandMathelindaNabugodi.

NoraCrookandMichaelRossingtonwill,respectively,givebriefpresentationsabouttheJohnsHopkinsUniversityPresseditionof‘TheCompletePoetryofPercyByssheShelley’andtheLongmanAnnotatedEnglishPoetseditionof‘ThePoemsofShelley’(Routledge).

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PARALLELPANELSSESSIONB

14:00–15:30,variousrooms

B1:‘Creativityandchange’(Chair:HarrieNeal)RoomG34

JacquelineMulhallen(IndependentScholar)‘1817-aPhilosophicalYearforShelley?’

PetrBurkot(PalackýUniversityOlomouc)‘MaryShelley–Listener,ReaderandDay-dreamer’

JulieBotteron(UniversityofNeuchâtel)‘MaryShelleyandFernánCaballero:ComparedExperiencesofTwoContemporaryWomenWriters’

B2:‘Science,theory,religion’(Chair:ByssheInigoCoffey)RoomG3

SharonRuston(LancasterUniversity)‘ChemistryandtheShelleys’

AliceRhodes(UniversityofYork)‘“TheSpiritWhichitBreathes”:PercyShelleyandtheScienceofInspiration’

RobertDavis(UniversityofGlasgow)‘Shelley,ReligionandLureoftheGnosticsReconsidered’

B3:‘PercyandMarytogether’(Chair:NoraCrook)RoomG7

AnnaMercer(UniversityofYork)‘“Mrs.S.isnowtranscribing[...]thebestthingIeverwrote”:theShelleys’collectiveworkingasevidenceofcollaborationinItaly,1818-22’

JoannaHarkerShaw(St.Mary’sUniversity)‘ShelleysasAdvisors’

ElizabethDenlinger(NewYorkPublicLibrary)‘“Yetdearerforitsmystery”:theShelleysonShow’

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Coffee/tea

15:30–16:00

JesselRoom

PLENARY2

16:00–17:15,KelvinEverest(UniversityofLiverpool)‘TheHeart’sEchoes’

IntroducedbyDrummondBone

CourtRoom

Winereception(allwelcome)

17:15–18:30

ConferenceDinner(mustbepre-booked)

19:00

Vasco&Piero’sPavilionRestaurant

(PBShelley’shomein1811!)

15PolandSt,Soho,LondonW1F8QE

ReadaboutShelley’stimeinPolandstreethere:

https://wordsworth.org.uk/blog/2016/12/01/shelley-in-london-poland-street/

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SATURDAY16SEPTEMBER

PARALLELPANELSSESSIONC

9:00–10:30,variousrooms

C1:‘Psychologiesandpersonalities’(Chair:EllenNicholls)RoomG34

BenHewitt(UniversityofStAndrews)‘PercyShelleyandPsychoanalysis:AllegoriesofLiberation’

KirstinMills(MacquarieUniversity)‘JourneyingthroughtheLandscapesoftheMind:theShelleys,Space,andthePsychologicalSciences’

AnthonyHowe(BirminghamCityUniversity)‘Shelley’sLetters:Past,PresentandFuture’

C2:‘RethinkingShelleyforlatergenerations’(Chair:CarlMcKeating)RoomG4

GrahamHenderson(MusicCanada&K-SAABoard)‘RomanticResistance:WhatwasinPBShelley’sradicaltoolboxthatcanhelpustoday?’

MarkSummers(IndependentScholar)‘ReclaimingtheRadicalRepublicanismofPBShelley’

TomMole(UniversityofEdinburgh)‘Shelley’sLongPoemsinVictorianAnthologies’

C3:‘PBShelley:AestheticsandSpeculation’(Chair:AnnaMercer)RoomG5

JonathanQuayle(NewcastleUniversity)‘WritingtheFuture:PercyShelleyandUtopia’

AlanM.Weinberg(UniversityofSouthAfrica)‘Shelley’s“AFutureState”:abidingconcerns,precedents,andparadoxes’

EmmaSuret(UniversityofSheffield)‘“Attractstocrush,repelstomaketheewither”:Shelley'sAestheticsinAdonais’

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C4:‘Sympathies’(Chair:CatherineRedford)RoomG7

HarrieNeal(UniversityofYork)‘‘MaryShelley’secofeminismbeyondFrankenstein:mind,body,andanimalsin“TheHeirofMondolfo”’

FaniCettl(CentralEuropeanUniversity)‘“Igazedwithakindofwonder”:TheMakingofMaryShelley’sVegetarian,AnimistCreature’

MerrileesRoberts(QueenMary)‘TheProblemofSympathyinADefenceofPoetry’

Coffee/teaandlightsnack

10:30–11:00

Room349/350(thirdfloor)

PARALLELSESSIONSD

11:00-12.30,variousrooms

D1:‘Textscomposedin1816’(Chair:GrahamHenderson)RoomG34

DeborahStiles(DalhousieUniversity)‘GenevaSummer,DundeeWinter:MWS,Seasonality,andSettingsinFrankenstein’

CarlMcKeating(UniversityofLeeds)‘“ACityofDeath”:TheShelleysand“MontBlanc”’

MiriamSette(University‘G.d'Annunzio’Pescara)‘PoetryasVision:“MontBlanc”byShelley’

D2:‘Translationandtransition’(Chair:MichaelRossington)RoomG4

MathelindaNabugodi(NewcastleUniversity)‘Germsinthecrucible:translationandpoeticcreationinShelley’slatework’

MariaSchoina(AristotleUniversityofThessaloniki,Greece)‘MaryShelley’sGreekStudiesRevisited’

PaulWhickman(UniversityofDerby)‘LaonandCythnaandTheRevoltofIslam:RevisionsasTransition’

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D3:RosalindandHelenandotherstories(Chair:JackDonovan)RoomG7

DanielWestwood(UniversityofSheffield)‘“Amazeoflightandlife”:ArtistryandIdeologyinRosalindandHelenandJulianandMaddalo’

AlessandraMonorchio(UniversityofBristol)‘SympathyanditsLimitsinP.B.Shelley’sRosalindandHelen’

LynnShepherd(IndependentScholar)‘DeadPoet’sNotoriety–FictionalisingtheShelleys’

PLENARY3

12:30–13:45,MichaelO’Neill(DurhamUniversity)‘“Pictures”and“Signs”:CreativeThinkinginP.B.Shelley'sProse’

IntroducedbyMadeleineCallaghan

Room349

Closingremarks

13:45–14:00AnnaMercerandHarrieNeal

Room349

Informalevents

14:00onwards

Lunchsomewherenearbyforthosewhowishtojoin,followedbyawalktoOldStPancrasGraveyardifitisfair

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ARTEXHIBITION

ArtworkbyLouisaAlbani–ondisplayinSenateHouse

MaryShelley–'SpiritofPlace'

Acollectionofartworkscommemoratingthe200thanniversaryofthepublicationofFrankenstein.

MaryShelleywasbornonadaythatsawacometvisiblethroughLondonskies.SheconceivedofFrankensteinonastormynightinGeneva,wheretheairwasheavywiththeaftereffectsofavolcaniceruption.Theelementsseemasignificantpresenceinherinnerandouterlife,asdo‘ghosts’.

TheItalianlandscapeisbothaplaceofliteraryinspirationandasiteofdeepsorrow.Itisindeeda‘landscapesofghosts’asisherearlylifeinLondon,growingupwithoutamother.

ThisartprojectexploreswaysofmakingvisibletheemotionallyandpsychicallychargednatureofMaryShelley’sengagementwith‘place’,aswellastouchingonthemesofhowweremembersomeone,andhowweimaginatively‘reclaim’bonds.

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CONTACT

Contact/questions:AnnaMercerandHarrieNealanna.mercer@york.ac.uk/hn553@york.ac.uk/theshelleyconference@gmail.com

Twitter:@shelleyconf2017

Conferencehashtag:#shelleyconf2017

https://theshelleyconference2017.wordpress.com

https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/shelley-conference-2017

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Theorganisersofferourgratefulthanksto:

RalucaCherejiandIES,theUniversityofYorkandourothersponsors:WRoCAH,RomanticBicentennials,andtheBritishAssociationforRomanticStudies,DrCatrionaKennedy,DrJimWattandDrJoannaWhartonattheCentreforEighteenthCenturyStudies(York),theacademicadvisoryboardProfKelvinEverestandProfMichaelRossington,ourSheffieldandLeedsWRoCAHlinksCarlMcKeatingandCarlyStevenson,VascoandPaulatVasco&Piero’sPavilionRestaurant,andourplenaryspeakersProfNoraCrookandProfMichaelO’Neill.Manythanksalsotoallourchairsandtothedelegatesandspeakersfortheirinterestinthisevent.

ThankyoutoGrahamHendersonforpromotingthiseventonline.ReadAnnaMercer’spiece‘WhytheShelleyConference?’here:

http://www.grahamhenderson.ca/guest-contribution/shelley-conference-2017-anna-mercer

Coverimagecredit:

BodleianLibraries,UniversityofOxford(‘Shelley’sGhost’)andtheNationalPortraitGallery,London.