Category: CFP

  • Cfp: Dickens and Science

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    DICKENS DAY – Dickens and Science Saturday 10 October 2009, London G. H. Lewes famously criticised Dickens’s failure to engage with contemporary scientific thought and proffer psychologically convincing characters, describing them as ‘frogs whose brains have been taken out for physiological purposes’. Recent work, however, has significantly challenged the truism that Dickens was indifferent or…

  • Cfp: Thomas de Quincey, Manchester and Medicine 1785-1859

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    A one-day conference on this subject will be held at the University of Salford on Friday 4th December 2009. It has been 150 years since Thomas de Quincey died on the 8th December 1859. Conference papers are invited on any topic concerning his work, Manchester, and medicine, during the period of his lifetime (1785-1859). Plenary…

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