Romantic Circles' Virtual Conference Series, Fall 1997

Romantic Circles was pleased to sponsor a virtual conference series built around two texts edited and archived by RC, Mary Shelley's The Last Man and Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk."

Each conference began with series of Web-interchanges between invited keynote speakers and respondents and then culiminated in a live meeting in the Villa Diodati, RC's MOOspace. Our goal with this structure was to combine the possibilities the Web offers for static representation with what the MOO offers as a forum for interaction. See our help pages for more information on accessing the MOO. To directly access the MOO, click here.

Urban Excursions: Percy Shelley's "The Devil's Walk"
October 18, 1997

The keynote speakers and respondents were:

• Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, On Devils, and the Devil; or Vice's Versus
  Respondent: Adriana Craciun, Loyola University Chicago, Heavenly Medicine in Hellish Songs: Diabolical Hypertext

• Neil Fraistat, The "Devil" to Edit: Time, Space and Hypertextuality, University of Maryland

• Robert Griffin, Tel Aviv University, The Mode of Existence of Shelley's "The Devil's Walk"
  Respondent: Terence Hoagwood, Texas A&M University, Meaning and the Mode of Existence of "Works": A response to Robert J. Griffin, "The Mode of Existence of Shelley's 'The Devil's Walk'"

• Michael O'Neill, University of Durham, UK, "A Hellish Song": Shelley's "The Devil's Walk"
  Respondent: Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia, Response

• Morton Paley, University of California, Berkeley, "The Devil's Walk" and "The Devil's Thoughts"
  Respondent: Bruce Graver, Providence College, Response

• Don Reiman, University of Delaware, Shelley and Popular Culture: The Devil's Walk
  Respondent: Michael Scrivener, Wayne State University, Response

• Chris Foss, Texas Christian University, Satiric Verses: On Shelley's The Devil's Walk and The Mask of Anarchy

Virtually Dead? Mary Shelley's The Last Man
September 13, 1997

View log of virtual conference

The keynote speakers and respondents were:

• Elizabeth Fay: Mary Shelley and Sibylline Drag
  Respondents: Ann Campbell, Response, and Irena Nikolova, Response

• Steven Jones: Of and For the Web; On Having Built "The Last Man Home Page"
  Respondent: Michael Laplace-Sinatra, Jones' hypertext edition of The Last Man: The Way of the Future for Scholarly Editing

• Gary Kelly: The Last Man and Masculine History: between the Revolutionary Aftermath and the Founding of the Modern Liberal State

• Greg Kucich: The Last Man and the New History
  Respondent: Anne Mellor, Response

• Alan Richardson: The Last Man and the Plague of Empire
  Respondent: Liz Rackley, The Last Man's Burden: A Response to Alan Richardson

Mark Ledden-mledden@emory.edu
Carole Meyers-cmeyers@emory.edu
Liz Rackley-erack01@emory.edu

or to:

Liz Rackley
Emory University
English Department
302 North Callaway Center
537 Kilgo Circle
Atlanta, GA 30322

General Editors:
Neil Fraistat, Steven E. Jones, Donald H. Reiman, and Carl Stahmer