CFP: For a proposed special session of the 1999 MLA convention:
Troubling History in Victorian England
I seek papers examining how Victorian engagements with history as a source
of meaning destabilize or distort the concept of history in the effort to
represent it. What forms of history did the Victorians construct for
themselves, and with what motivations? What cultural forces compelled the
Victorian fascination with theories of origin/development? How does the
'historicism' of our own time reflect or refract history or historicity as
an imaginative construct in the Victoran perod? And what bearing do such
questions have on the formal features of Victorian literary production?
Possible topics might include the ideologically-oriented use of historical
tropes (as in Carlyle and Ruskin), Victorian medievalism, the historical
novel/romance, anxieties of history (geology, evolutionary theory),
anthropological-/archeological-/museological-narrative, classicism and/or
the disciplines of history.
Two-page abstract and a brief c.v. must be *received* no later than
3/19/99; submissions may be sent by mail or email to:
Ryan Johnson
Department of English
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305
ryanx@leland.stanford.edu
Ryan Johnson
General Editor
Stanford Humanities Review
Mariposa House
Stanford, CA 94305
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Department of English ryanx@leland.stanford.edu
Stanford University (415)626-5885 home
Stanford, CA 94305
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. --Emerson
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