1999 Modern Language Association Convention Romantics Division: Call for Papers (Thisg entry did not appear in the MLA Newsletter)

. . . In a throng, A festal company of maids and youths, Old men and matrons, staid, promiscuous rout, A medley of tempers, I had passed The night in dancing, gaiety and mirth-- With din of instruments, and shuffling of feet, And glancing forms, and tapers glittering, And unaimed prattle flying up and down, Spirits upon the stretch, and here and there Slight shocks of young love-liking interspersed That mounted up like joy into the head, And tingled through the veins. Ere we had retired The cock had crowed, the sky was bright with day; Two miles I had to walk along the fields Before I reached my home. Magnificent The morning was, a memorable pomp, More glorious than I ever had beheld *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *     *                                         . . . On I walked In blessedness, which even yet remains. --W. Wordsworth, The Prelude (1805), 4.316-45

The MLA English Romantic Period Division announces a call for papers for the 1999 Convention in Chicago. You are invited to join us in a conversation about Parties: political parties and parliamentary opposition; the cultural history of conviviality; literary representations of parties, salons, celebrations; the spaces of sociality; events marking the turn of the century (1799/1999).

RSVP by submitting 8-page papers by March 15 to host Julie Carlson, fax (805) 893-4622; jcarlson@humanitas.ucsb.edu