Call for Papers (NEASECS 99; Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham, NH;
12/9-12)
Session: Constructs of Primitive Peoples in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Century
Paper proposals (1 to 2 pages) are welcome for a session on portrayals
of primitive peoples in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The session will take place at the Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies annual conference at the Univ. of New
Hampshire in Durham, Dec. 9 - 12, 1999. The deadline for
paper proposals is 5 April.
An increase in the quantity, quality, and popularity of voyage writing
in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century resulted in new and
renewed knowledge of primitive peoples. Notions of foreign, exotic,
barbarous, or savage peoples had always fired imaginations, but a new
empiricism began to permeate the observations of travel writers.
Portrayals of primitive peoples at least seemed more accurate and less
embellished or speculative than in the past. Paper proposals may
consider constructs of primitive peoples in any discipline, such as
philosophy, science, literature, art, or travel writing itself.
Proposals may address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
How did reports of primitives influence European thought in the period,
and vice-versa? Did primitive types or degrees of primitivism emerge?
How did constructs of primitive peoples contribute to the construct of
European civilization and the increase in colonial interests.
Deadline: 5 April
Please submit 1 to 2 page proposals by e-mail to
James Salvucci
salvucci@chass.utoronto.ca
Queries and quandaries by phone:
202-518-2446
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