GoingToMeet

Narrative Dominions will address the shifting terrains and overlapping dominions of English-language prose fiction from its origins to the present day, bringing together aesthetic, generic, geographical, material, socio-political, and theoretical aspects of literary history. The conference is linked to the forthcoming multi-volume Oxford History of the Novel in English , to be published by Oxford University Press from 2010 onwards. There will be sessions devoted to book history, popular fiction, the novel's relationship to other genres, American fiction, world fiction in English, and the British and Irish novel at different periods. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers involving the presentation of new research or interpretation and/or critical reflection on the challenges of writing literary history in any of these fields.

The conference will provide an open forum for debate about the plan and purpose of the Oxford History , the approaches to be taken in specific volumes, the treatment of individual topics, and the opportunities and difficulties to which the series must respond arising from our current research context. Submissions from editors, contributors, and potential contributors to the series are particularly welcome. The programme will also include keynote lectures, an opportunity to meet the in-house editorial team at Oxford University Press, and an editors' panel.