The Jerwood Centre at The Wordsworth Trust, Grasmere, 13–14 May 2022
Speakers and topics now confirmed:
Goda Bulybenko: De Quincey’s Confessions: discovery of the modern self through the reshaping of a classical pattern of autobiography. Independent
Andrew Chang: Constructing into a Regular Narrative: Opium Stories and Imperial Perspectives in Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1822) and The Moonstone (1868). University of Chicago
Benjamin Colbert: “The Glory of Motion”: De Quincey and Acceleration. University of Wolverhampton
Claire Connolly: Rough Irish Locomotion. University College Cork
Daniel Cook: Arrayed for Mutual Slaughter: Warfare and Moral Action in De Quincey’s Autobiographical Writings. Saginaw Valley University
Neşe Devenot: Marcus Clarke and the Legacy of De Quincey's Self-Experimental Drug Writing. University of Cincinnati
Nick Dodd: De Quincey’s co-ontological sleep: Elektra’s kindness as a way beyond ‘dog sleep’ and nightmare. Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Hannah Donovan: Embodied Dreaming in Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Queen Mary University of London
Humberto Garcia: The Unsightly Spectacle of “Poor Houseless Wanderers”: De Quincey’s Confessions the Malaysian Sailor and Vagrancy. University of California, Merced
Jocelyn Godiveau: The Brotherhood of the Cursed: Thomas de Quincey seen by Charles Baudelaire. Université Catholique de l’Ouest – Angers
Felicity James: Fountains and Night Fears: Lamb, De Quincey, and childhood in the London Magazine. University of Leicester
Zahra Kandeh Kar: Where Did Wordsworth Bury His Parents in The Prelude? Haute Alsace University
Peter Kitson: De Quincey’s Confessions, Addiction, and the Opium Wars with China. University of East Anglia
Margaret Lehmann: De Quincey: Dreams as a Palimpsest. University of Chicago
Roisin McCloskey: La Douleur Exquise: De Quincey’s Addiction Narrative in light of the themes of Guilt and the Gothic Self. Independent
Tim Milnes: Awful Parenthesis: De Quincey, Horror, and Transcendental Idealism. University of Edinburgh
Jane Moore: The Musical Prose of Thomas De Quincey. Cardiff University
Robert Morrison: Keynote: title tbd. Bath Spa University / British Academy
Adam Neikirk: “New Eyes / New I’d”: Escapism, Subjectivity and the Literary Personae of Lamb, Coleridge, and De Quincey. University of Essex
Markus Poetzsch: Negotiating ‘Felicitous Space’: De Quincey at His Sister’s Bedside. Wilfrid Laurier University
Daniel S. Roberts: “The spotless beauty, and the ideal proportions of some Greek statue”: Hartleyan influence in De Quincey’s aesthetic theory. Queen’s University Belfast
Margaret Russett: Keynote: Sympathy, Syncope, Suspension: De Quincey’s Virtual Reality. University of Southern California
Eloise Scott: Through the mighty labyrinths of London’: Retracing the Thread of De Quincey’s Labyrinthine Narratives. Northumbria University
Jenny Sullivan: “Innumerable Faces”: The Facial Sublime and Ethical Responsibility in De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Queen's University
Jean-Christophe Valtat: The Profane Illuminations of Thomas De Quincey. Université Paul Valery-Montpellier III, RIRRA
It is necessary to become a member of the Friends of Coleridge to attend the conference.
