================== HES POSTING ====================== 
 
                            CALL FOR PAPERS 
 
                 Nineteenth-Century Studies Association 
 
                    Announces its annual conference 
 
                             BY BODY BOUND 
 
 
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 
[log in to unmask]                          [log in to unmask] 
                 The University of Alabama in Huntsville 
                         Huntsville, AL 35899 
============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ 
For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]