The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is sponsoring a festive lunch and a scholarly session at the 2026 convention of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans.
Session 167:
Migration in British Romanticism
Friday, January 9, 2026, 8:30-9:45 a.m.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge
Association
Presiding: Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University, Montreal
1. "Highlanders, Migration, and the Law: Walter Scott's Guy Mannering," Alexander Dick, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
2. "Lady Caroline Lamb's Graham Hamilton and the Migratory Possibilities of South America," Lindsey Eckert, Florida State University
3. "Moving Plants: Scenographic Representations of Exotic Flora and Botanical Imperialism on the Romantic Stage," Yasser Shams Khan, Qatar University
4. "Arctic Migrations: Indigenous Encounters and Cultural Displacement in British Romantic Exploration Narratives," Hayley Bowen, Temple University, Philadelphia
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