Thursday 14 - Sunday 17 September 2023
10am to 7pm (Day 1)
1pm to 6.30pm (Day 2)
12.30pm to 7pm (Day 3)
University Park Campus and Nottingham city centre
£100 Speaking Delegate (in-person or remote)
£100 Non-speaking Delegate (in-person)
£70 Non-speaking Delegate (remote)
These fees will rise by £30 after June 1st 2023
All Attendees must also be members of the Charles Brockden Brown Society.
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The Fourteenth Biennial Conference of the Charles Brockden Brown Society features papers on multiple aspects of the expression and representation of law-making and law-breaking in North American literary, cultural, and intellectual life between 1691 and 1830. Shifts in perceptions of acceptable dissent, the legitimacy of legal and penal institutions, and the relationship between criminality and racial, gender, and class status during this era have had deep and abiding consequences for American thought and culture that still resonate with twenty-first century struggles to address these issues. Panel sessions include discussions of early American captivity narratives, role-playing and confidence games, the Orientalist spy genre, piracy, urban policing, intersections between science and race, the global circuits of enslavement, indentured servitude, and financial crime.
Dr Matthew Pethers
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