12 novembre 2018
OpenEdition, « English journeys past and present, explorations of the condition of England », Calenda, le calendrier des lettres, des sciences humaines et sociales, ID : 10670/1.fyh4g5
The conference will address the following hypothesis: the illustration of a certain way of being English, of a specific English way of inhabiting and making sense of the world, were given definition and cultural force through a series of writings which record the impressions of things seen in the course of a journey dedicated to the exploration of a territory, whether the land of England in its national extension or the more local territory of a particular community. The organizers are calling for papers which will examine a corpus of writing proposing a first-person observations of a condition of England at various moments in the history of a territory.