GER 2025 – Negotiations of Value in the Romantic Age

21^st International Conference of the Society for English Romanticism (Gesellschaft für Englische Romantik, GER)

Several scholars have proposed that the turn of the 19th century saw a paradigmatic shift in the understanding of the concept of value. With the economic discourse becoming more and more dominant in the growing consumer societies of the Western world, however, economic value began to be singled out. At the same time, those invested in the aesthetic and ethico-philosophical domains also aimed at distinguishing their respective disciplinary positions, including distinctive notions of what counted as valuable, as being of worth.

Precisely because the Romantic conjuncture is complex, it will not be enough to solely consider the literary and cultural as well as other domains through the lens of ‘the economy’ (which economic criticism does not intend anyway). Instead, the conference encourages a discussion about various discursive perspectives on value in the Romantic Age by way of different theoretical and methodological approaches.

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Registration deadline: 25 July 2025

Contact:
For general questions: conference-ger2025[at]fau.de

Conference Organisation:
Gerold Sedlmayr
Kathrin Bethke
Mona Kammer
Karin Kottenhahn (Administrative Assistant to the Chair)

Print: Object: „New Morality“ or „The Promis’d installment of the high-priest of the theophilanthropes, with the homage of leviathan and his suite“. Publishd August 1st 1798. by J. Wright No 169. Piccadilly, for the Anti-Jacobin Magazine & Review. © The Trustees of the British Museum.
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