================= HES POSTING ================= Forwarded by Malcolm Rutherford. ********************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS Victorians Institute 1996 University of Virginia 18-19 October 1996 WHEN MONEY TALKED (AND HOW): VICTORIAN NEGOTIATIONS Proposals are invited for conference papers on money in Victorian history, literature, and culture: its substance and theory, omnipresence and invisibility, glamour and filth. Our featured speaker will be Christopher Herbert of Northwestern University. Panels will be arranged upon acceptance of papers, but a list of likely themes includes -Living off the interest: capital growth and the Victorian plot -The many faces of money: numismatics, forgery, the sovereign and the note -Getting and spending: the economics of eros -Speculative bonds: stock-taking, stake-holding, responsibility & the cash nexus -Poetry appreciation: the rare-book as gift, commodity, and investment -Pricelessness: fungible solvency versus absolute value -Hard cash, soft money, and the strength of representations -Credit/credo, debt/doubt, and the circulation of trust -Coinage and neologism: the minting of Victorian English -Home economics: from pin money to household accounts -Monetary science: the gold standard on and off -Miser, blackmailer, bankrupt; embezzler, beggar, thief: pathologies of money Proposals on additional topics will be welcome, especially if they bring what might otherwise be a broadly *economic* issue into specifically *monetary* focus. The Victorians Institute is one of the best membership bargains in academia; nevertheless, conference participation and registration are open not just to card-carrying members but to all who take an interest in the subject. Proposals: 1-2 pages Presentations: 15-20 minutes Deadline for proposals: 15 May 1996 Address: Herbert Tucker Department of English Bryan Hall 219 University of Virginia Charlottesville VA 22903 [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]