Fictions of History

SSHLS - JMW Turner Fall of Carthage (clean)The Centre for Studies in Literature and The South Coast Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Research Group are pleased to announce a one-day, multi-disciplinary symposium entitled ‘Historical Fictions and Fictions of History, 1680-1830’ to be held at the University of Portsmouth on 2 July, 2010. The symposium will investigate the nature and development of historical writing in the long eighteenth century, focusing on the unstable boundaries between fiction and history.

The Conference organiser is Dr Ben Dew. Please send all enquiries to: benjamin.dew@port.ac.uk