----------------- HES POSTING ----------------- [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: [log in to unmask] All panel members must be members of the MLA by April 1, 2001. ------------ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ------------ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]