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<p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" face="Garamond"><b>“Hope Mirrlees’s <i>Paris: A Poem</i> at 100”</b></font></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Garamond; font-size:large">2020 marks the 100</span><sup style="font-family:Garamond">th</sup><span style="font-family:Garamond; font-size:large"> anniversary of “modernism’s lost masterpiece,” Hope Mirrlees</span><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Garamond">’s
</span><i style="font-family:Garamond">Paris: A Poem</i><span style="font-family:Garamond">. Published by</span></font><span style="font-family:Garamond; font-size:large"> Hogarth Press in the spring of 1920, and typeset by Virginia Woolf herself, this ground-breaking
long poem maps the range of continental avant-garde aesthetics of the 1910s even as it both engages and anticipates the mythical methods and epic conventions of James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and T.S. Eliot.</span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" face="Garamond">This one-day conference aims to present new work that reassesses the singularity of Mirrlees’s poem as well as its place within the broader network of literary modernism. While scholars such as Julia Briggs,
who produced the first annotated edition of the poem in <i>Gender in Modernism: New Geographies, Complex Intersections</i> (2007), and Sandeep Parmar, who edited the first critical edition of Mirrlees’s
<i>Collected Poems</i> (2011), have done the important archival and recovery work that restored
<i>Paris</i> to critical attention, Peter Howarth solidified <i>Paris</i>’s position within the modernist “canon” with his chapter, “Why Write Like This?,” in
<i>The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry </i>(2011), which introduces readers to the disorienting pleasures of modernism’s most famous poems through an extended analysis of Mirrlees’s “difficult” work (16). Building on these approaches, this conference
seeks to initiate a “new” wave of <i>Paris</i> scholarship that complicates and extends the poem’s aesthetic, cultural, and socio-political import on the occasion of its centenary.</font></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-US"><font size="4" face="Garamond">We therefore welcome papers that both pay tribute to the exceptionality of the poem and insist on the “complex intersections” that resist canonical trends of exceptionalizing marginalized writers like Mirrlees.
We invite proposals that consider any aspect of the poem, its influences, or its legacies as well as papers focusing on Mirrlees’s work more generally and in relation to her contemporaries.</font></span></p>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB"><font size="4" face="Garamond">The conference will take place on June 10, 2020 at the Maison de la Recherche Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, France. It will include a panel discussion with Sandeep Parmar, Lauren Elkin, and Francesca Wade as
well as a reception celebrating the launch of a new edition of the poem (forthcoming May 2020 by Faber & Faber).</font></span></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Garamond"><span lang="EN-GB">Abstracts due <b>February 15, 2020</b> to Rio Matchett (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:R.A.Matchett@liverpool.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="EN-GB">R.A.Matchett@liverpool.ac.uk</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">)
and Nell Wasserstrom (</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:wassersn@bc.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span lang="EN-GB">wassersn@bc.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">).</span></font></p>
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