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[forwarded from H-SHGAPE by Paul Wendt] 
 
"Economic and Cultural Panic" 
 
Proposed MLA Special Session, New Orleans 2001 
 
Seeking papers that explore representations of or responses to economic 
panic in 19th-century literary texts.  Approach may be textual, 
historical, cultural, and/or theoretical.  Topics might include (but are 
not limited to): 
        * the cultural work of "panic fiction" 
        * intersections between financial and sexual, psychological, 
                political, or religious panic 
        * panic writing and the literary marketplace 
        * the Economic as allegory, the Market as metaphor 
        * economic cycles and narrative form 
        * class and gender politics of economic instability 
        * acts of reading, writing, and panic 
        * texts that produce financial/cultural panic 
        * rethinking the homology between financial and literary acts 
 
 
Send 1-2 page proposal and brief cv (hardcopy or email) by March 10 to: 
        David Zimmerman 
        English Department 
        7185 H.C. White Hall 
        University of Wisconsin, Madison 
        Madison, WI 53711 
        or: 
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All panel members must be members of the MLA by April 1, 2001. 
 
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