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CALL FOR PAPERS
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Announces its annual conference
BY BODY BOUND
Keynote speaker:
James R. Kincaid
University of Southern California
Author of _Child-Loving: the Erotic Child and Victorian Culture_,
1992 _Annoying the Victorians_, 1995 _Erotic Innocence_,
forthcoming spring 1998
NCSA, an interdisciplinary association for the study of nineteenth-century
cultures-- British, American, and continental-- announces its 17th annual
conference, BY BODY BOUND, to be hosted by the University of Alabama in
Huntsville, 2-4 April 1998.
The conference invites cultural, social, historical, literary, aesthetic,
political, scientific, and philosophical perspectives on the
nineteenth-century body. We invite papers from multiple disciplines that
consider all manner of nineteenth-century materials, such as its art and
artifacts; literature; religious, scientific, or legal writing; social,
political, and economic debate. Papers might consider:
Representing the body, the aesthetic, the decadent, the subjugated,
the domesticated, the radicalized, the imperial and colonized, the
criminal, the grotesque; the young; the old;
Decorating the body; marking it; theatricalizing it; dressing and
undressing it;
Reading the body, phrenology, and physiognomy;
Diagnosing the body and its ills; the working body, the way to
health; diet, excercise, regimens, sanitation; social planning,
workplace reform and housing;
The dying body and the dead body;
The spirited body; ghosts; the release from the body;
Body politics, gender and sexuality; prostitution; purity;
reproduction;
The Darwinian body, evolving or degenerating;
The economic body and the legislated body;
The body as social metaphor; the body politic;
Bodies of work.
Two copies of proposals (one to two pages) for twenty-minute papers should
be accompanied by a brief curriculum vita and a 50-75 word abstract.
Proposals for panels or for other topics for open sessions are also
welcome. All materials should reach the Program Directors by mail no later
than 1 October 1997. You may email queries, but NOT proposals. Decisions
will be announced by December 1997.
Send to:
David Stewart or Julie English Early
Department of Art Department of English
Roberts Hall Morton Hall
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The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Huntsville, AL 35899
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