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INCS: Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies 
CALL FOR PAPERS 
INCS Announces its Thirteenth Annual Conference 
 
19thCentury MONEY and Culture 
Loyola University New Orleans, 
host institution, in collaboration with faculty from 
Tulane University, 
the University of New Orleans, 
and Xavier University of Louisiana 
April 17-18, 1998 
 
The featured speaker for the conference will by Mary Poovey, Professor of 
English, The Johns Hopkins University.  Author of  The Proper Lady and the 
Woman Writer: Ideology as Style in the Works of Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary 
Shelley, and Jane Austen (1984); Uneven Developments: the Ideological Work 
of Gender in Mid-Victorian England (1988);  and Making a Social Body : 
British Cultural Formation, 1830-1864 (1995). 
 
INCS welcomes proposals for papers and panels suitable for an 
interdisciplinary conference on nineteenth-century studies.  This year, we 
welcome papers and panels on the general subject of money and culture. 
 
Papers and panels on the following list of topics, for example, would be 
appropriate: 
 
*Cultural texts and economics 
*Economics of Empire 
*Money, nation, and race 
*Politics, Ideology, and Money 
*Commodification of literature and art 
*Economics of Class 
*Artists, work, and money 
*Political economy and philosophies of money 
*Theories of value and representation 
*Women's work 
*Money and Revolutions 
 
Send 200-word abstracts or complete papers (15 page limit) by October 15, 
1997 to: 
 
Richard E. Johnson 
Department of English 
Loyola University 
New Orleans, LA 70118 
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Notifications of acceptance will be mailed in December 1997.  INCS 
sessions are devoted to discussions.  Presenters therefore make a 
five-minute summary of their papers and respond to discussion. 
 
For further information on membership, dues, and other INCS matters, 
contact Professor Chris VandenBossche, Department of English,  University 
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556. ([log in to unmask]) 
 
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