Persuasions: The Rhetoric of Romanticism is the 2022 annual meeting for the International Conference on Romanticism. The organization, founded almost thirty years ago by scholars from several countries, has always stood for the study of Romanticism as a whole, in all its multi-linguistic, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary manifestations, avoiding a narrowed-down view of the movement limited to one or two linguistic traditions or just one discipline. Members come from more than twenty countries and represent literature, philosophy, musicology, art history, educational theory, and so on.

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Romanticism, in both theory and practice, has always acknowledged the power of language to inspire action, change minds, alter perceptions, and otherwise do things in the world. Understanding Romantic rhetoric may lead us to a place where we can address the limitations on persuading the unpersuadable toward a common understanding of civic life.

For the return of the International Conference on Romanticism to Santa Barbara, we invite papers, panels, and presentation on all aspects of rhetoric and persuasion in Romanticism, broadly defined.

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