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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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