The Romantics and Us: A Public Humanities Conference
April 22-24, 1988
Chicago Circle Center, 750 South Halsted
University of Illinois at Chicago
The Romantics and Us is a public humanities project which has as its centerpiece a conference tracing the literary, cultural, and social connections of the literature and art of the early nineteenth century to that of our own century.
The conference has been planned in conjunction with the critically acclaimed international exhibition, William Wordsworth and the Age of English and the Age of English Romanticism, which will appear at the Chicago Historical Society, April 6-June 5, 1988.
Both the conference and the exhibition are designed for nonspecialist audiences with diverse cultural interests. Conference sessions at UIC will be open to the public free of charge.
FRIDAY, April 22
2:00-4:30 P.M.: Romanticism and the Visual Arts
James Chandler, University of Chicago
The Historical Novel at the Movies: Scott, Griffith, and Film Epic Today
Karl Kroeber, Columbia University
Ethical Narratives in Romantic and Modern Painting
7:00-9:30 P.M.: Wordsworth and Contemporary Poetry
Charles Altieri, University of Washington
Wordsworth in Contemporary Poetry: Some Conditions for Eloquence
Diane Wakoski, Michigan State University
Whitman? No, Wordsworth: The Song of Myself
SATURDAY, April 23
1:00 P.M.: Developing Public and Educational Programs on Romanticism
A panel discussion
2:00-4:30 P.M.: Romanticism and Modern Culture
George Bornstein, University of Michigan
Romancing the (Native) Stone: Yeats and Stevens
Cliffors Siskin, Wayne State University
Wordsworth's prescriptions: Romanticism and Professional Power
7:00-9:30 P.M.: Romanticism and Women
Anne K. Mellor, UCLA
Why Women Didn't Like Romanticism: The views of Mary Shelly and Jane Austen
Alicia Ostriker, Rutgers University
The Road of Excess: My William Blake
Major support for this project was provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal agency.
