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<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b>The Prosaic Imaginary: novels and the everyday, 1750-2000</b></font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">July 1-4 2014</font></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">University of Sydney</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Confirmed Keynote Speakers: </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Professor Maud Ellmann, Randy L. & Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, Chicago</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Associate Professor Julie Park, Vassar</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Professor John Plotz, Brandeis</font></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">The conference will open up the nuances of the term ‘prosaic’ by exploring the privileged relationship between the novel genre and multiple and complex categories of the ‘everyday’. Building on
John Plotz’s notion of the novel as exemplary ‘portable property’, the conference will address the relationship between novel-reading as everyday activity and the novel’s prosaic subject matter, whether this is conceived as material object, cultural practice,
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Suggested topics: </font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and things</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and film/and TV</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Readerships of the novel</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and gender</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and childhood</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Queer novels</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Psychologies of the novel</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Novel genres</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The odd or uncategorisable</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The secular imagination</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Book history and the novel</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and the digital everyday</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Characters as quasi-persons</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Novel worlds</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and the institutionalisation of affect</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel as political action</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Temporalities of the novel</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The novel and the forms of property</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">The scale of the novel</font></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Proposals for 20 minute papers or for 3 paper panel sessions should be sent to</font></div>
<div style="font-size: 10pt;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">Vanessa Smith (<a href="mailto:Vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au" target="_blank">Vanessa.smith@sydney.edu.au</a>) by March 31 2014. Postgraduate submissions welcomed. </font></div>
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