Romantic Circles' Virtual Conference Series

Each conference began with series of Web-interchanges between invited keynote speakers and respondents and then culiminated in a live meeting in the Villa Diodati, RC's MOOspace. Our goal with this structure was to combine the possibilities the Web offers for static representation with what the MOO offers as a forum for interaction. See our help pages for more information on accessing the MOO. To directly access the MOO, click here.

Romanticism and Contemporary Culture: June 17, 2000

Urban Excursions: Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk": October 18, 1997

Virtually Dead? Mary Shelley's The Last Man: September 13, 1997

Romanticism and Contemporary Culture
June 17, 2000

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The keynote speakers were:

• Jay Clayton, Vanderbilt University, "Cultural Patchwork in the Classroom: Shelley Jackson, Tom Stoppard, William Gibson, and Bruce Sterling Rewrite the Romantics"
  
  
• Atara Stein, California State University, Fullerton, "Immortals and Vampires and Ghosts, Oh My!: Byronic Heroes in Popular Culture"
  
  
• Ted Underwood, Colby College, "How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds)"

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Urban Excursions: Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk"
October 18, 1997

The keynote speakers and respondents were:

• Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, "On Devils, and the Devil; or Vice's Versus"
  Respondent: Adriana Craciun, Loyola University Chicago, "Heavenly Medicine in Hellish Songs: Diabolical Hypertext"

• Neil Fraistat, "The 'Devil' to Edit: Time, Space and Hypertextuality", University of Maryland

• Robert Griffin, Tel Aviv University, "The Mode of Existence of Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'"
  Respondent: Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University, "Meaning and the Mode of Existence of 'Works': A Response to Robert J. Griffin, "The Mode of Existence of Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'" "

• Michael O'Neill, University of Durham, UK, "'A Hellish Song': Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'"
  Respondent: Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, Response

• Morton Paley, University of California, Berkeley, "'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Devil's Thoughts'"
  Respondent: Bruce Graver, Providence College, Response

• Don Reiman, University of Delaware, "Shelley and Popular Culture: 'The Devil's Walk'"
  Respondent: Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University, Response

• Chris Foss, Texas Christian University, "Satiric Verses: On Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk' and 'The Mask of Anarchy'"

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Virtually Dead? Mary Shelley's The Last Man
September 13, 1997

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The keynote speakers and respondents were:

• Elizabeth Fay: "Mary Shelley and Sibylline Drag"
  Respondents: Ann Campbell, Response, and Irena Nikolova, Response

• Steven Jones: "Of and For the Web; On Having Built the Last Man Home Page"
  Respondent: Michael Eberle-Sinatra, "Jones' Hypertext Edition of The Last Man: The Way of the Future for Scholarly Editing"

• Gary Kelly: "The Last Man and Masculine History: between the Revolutionary Aftermath and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State"

• Greg Kucich: "The Last Man and the New History"
  Respondent: Anne Mellor, Response

• Alan Richardson: "The Last Man and the Plague of Empire"
  Respondent: Liz Rackley, "The Last Man's Burden: A Response to Alan Richardson"