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PresentationHabitually characterised as a late-appearing variant upon the Victorian Quest Romance, The Lost World in fact marked the beginning of Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s prolonged investigation of science, ideology and belief under the inhibiting constraints of early twentieth-century modernity. The narratives span from 1912 to 1929 and this new collection will be dedicated to re-evaluating the narratives, their author, the wider culture that he inhabited and the legacy of his work for the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We are interested in work that treats the texts either directly or tangentially through other aspects of Conan Doyle&#8217;s life and thought.The editors would like to solicit abstracts of 200-300 words or completed articles of 6,000-12,000 words. We are interested in covering as many divergent approaches to the narratives as possible but potential topics might include :    The Twentieth-Century Quest Romance.    Arthur Conan Doyle: Low Modernist.    Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s Contribution to Science-Fiction and/or Speculative Fiction    Modernity and the State in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction.    Science and the Popular Press, 1912-1930.    Science as a Public Discourse, 1912-1930.    Science as State-Craft, 1912-1930.    Spiritual vs. Material Science.    Grief, Trauma, Mourning and Science during and after the Great War.    Twentieth-Century Medievalism/Primitivism.    Spiritualism, Science and the Great War.    The Strand Magazine in the Twentieth-Century.    The Twentieth-Century Afterlife of &#8220;Victorian&#8221; Ideology/Thought/Literary Forms.    Weapons of Mass Destruction, 1912-1930.    Heroism, Chivalry and Masculinity after the Great War.    Science, Technology and European Competition, 1912-1930.    The Twentieth-Century Legacy of Arthur Conan Doyle in Europe.    Machines, Weapons, Products, Commodities.    Conan Doyle&#8217;s Non-Fiction, 1912-1930.    The Endurance of Professor Challenger in Critical Theory (Deleuze &#38; Guattari, Jon McKenzie etc...).    Early Treatments of Capitalist/Communist Confrontations in Popular Fiction.To submitAny inquiries should be sent to the scientific coordinators :     Dr. Jonathan Cranfield, University of Kent (j.cranfield@kent.ac.uk)         Prof. H&#233;l&#232;ne Machinal, Universit&#233; de Bretagne (helene.machinal@univ-brest.fr)Abstracts should be submitted by 20th June, 2012.