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For generations and centuries, people have lived on the land, and from the land. Many more have experienced, individually and in communities, rural life, and many others have recorded or borne witness to this experience, in narrative, song, oral and written record. Despite the present modern global experience of the urban, many people around the world are still, primarily, rural, living in agrarian communities. This interdisciplinary conference aims to consider the rural experience over the centuries, from many perspectives.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Email address for information or to submit abstracts: rural@lboro.ac.uk Advance deadline 30th October 2012 but early submission is encouraged.
Topics and authors may include but are not limited to: John Clare, Thomas Hardy, Laurie Lee, Richard Jefferies, Flora Thompson, Richard Mabey, and other English writers of the rural. Papers are encouraged on non-confirmist and dissident communities, communities of belief such as Ranters, Levellers, Quakers, Mennonites, and working agrarian communities around the world; rural labouring classes across the centuries; rurality and modernity. Papers may also address any aspects of rural and agrarian life, including those that have changed or been transformed as a result of technological or legislative intervention, from literary, historical and other disciplinary perspectives: issues of regional and community experience in distinction or opposition to national concerns in Irish, Welsh, or Scottish texts; North American writing and film; borderland and diasporic experience; European ideas and images of the rural, agrarian life in literature of Australasia.