Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders
28th – 30th June 2018 - Corsham Court, Bath Spa University, UK
The Captivating
Criminality Network is delighted to announce its fifth UK conference. Building
upon and developing ideas and themes from the previous four successful
conferences, Crime Fiction: Insiders and Outsiders, will examine
the ways in which Crime Fiction as a genre is able to incorporate both
traditional ideas and themes, as well as those
from outside mainstream
and/or dominant ways of thinking.
Crime fiction narratives
continue to gain in both popularity and critical appreciation. This
conference will consider the ways in which writers who work within
generic cultural and critical boundaries and those who challenge those
seeming restrictions, through both form and content, have influenced
each other. Crime fiction, in its widest sense, has benefited from
challenges from diverse ‘outsiders’ who in turn shift and develop the genre.
This was as true in the early days of the genre as it is today and, as
such, we welcome submissions from the early modern to the present day.
A key question that this
conference will address is the enduring appeal of crime fiction and its
ability to incorporate other disciplines such as History, Criminology,
Film, TV, Media, and Psychology. From the ‘sensational’ novelists of
the 1860s to today’s ‘Domestic Noir’ narratives, crime fiction
has proved itself to be open to challenges and development from
historical and cultural movements such as, feminism, gender studies, queer
politics, post modernism, metafiction, war, and shifting concepts of
criminality. In addition, crime fiction is able to respond to and incorporate
changes in political and historic world events. With this in mind,
we are interested in submissions that approach crime narratives
from the earliest days of crime writing until the present day.
This international,
interdisciplinary event is organised by Bath Spa University and the
Captivating Criminality Network, and we invite scholars, practitioners
and fans of crime writing, to participate in this conference that will
address these key elements of crime fiction and real crime. Topics may
include, but are not restricted to:
•
Feminist Sleuths (second wave and beyond)
• The
Victorian Lady Detective
•
Femininity and the Golden Age
•
Masculinities
• Crime
and Queer Theory
• Crime
and War
• The
Cozy Crime Novel
•
Victims and Perpetrators
• Crime
Fiction and Form
• The
Prison and Other Institutions
• Madness
and Criminality
•
Technology
• Film
Adaptations
•
Post-Communist Crime Fiction
• Crime
Fiction in Times of Trauma
• Latin
American Crime Fiction and Trauma
• The
Psychological
• The
Detective, Then and Now
• The
Anti-Hero
• True
Crime
•
Contemporary Crime Fiction
•
Victorian Crime Fiction
•
Eighteenth-Century Crime
• Early
Forms of Crime Writing
• The
Golden Age
•
Hardboiled Fiction
•
Forensics and Detection
• The
Body
•
Seduction and Sexuality
• The
Criminal Analyst
• Others
and Otherness
•
Landscape
• The
Country and the City
• The
Media and Detection
•
Adaptation and Interpretation
•
Justice Versus Punishment
• Lack
of Order and Resolution
Please send 200 word
proposals to Dr. Fiona Peters and Joanne Ella Parsons (captivatingcriminalitynetwork@gmail.com)
by 3rd February 2018. The abstract should
include your name, email address, and affiliation, as well as the title of
your paper. Please feel free to submit abstracts presenting work in
progress as well as completed projects. Postgraduate students are welcome.
Papers will be a maximum of 20 minutes in length. Proposals for suggested
panels are also welcome.
Attendance fees:
Full Fee: £180 (£135 if a
member of the International Crime Fiction Association)
Reduced Rate (students,
ECRs not on a permanent contract/retired): £130
(£95 if a member of the
International Crime Fiction Association)
To join the International
Crime Fiction Association please email:
Full Membership: £20 per
annum
Reduced Rate Membership
£10 per annum
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