Call for Paper:
MODERNIST GOTHIC / GOTHIC MODERNISM
a panel to be proposed for the Inaugural Conference of the Modernist
Studies Association; October 7-10, 1999, Penn State University
An early 19th-century writer offered the following suggestive recipe for
transforming the Gothic romance of the late 18th century into a
19th-century realistic novel:
"Where you find: --
A castle . . . . . . . . . . . . . put An house
A giant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A father
A knight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .A gentleman without whiskers
A midnight murder . . . . . . . . . . . A marriage
A lady who is the heroine . . Need not be changed being versatile."
How is the Gothic genre further transformed as the 19th century realism is
challenged by the fin-de-siecle and modernist innovations? What kinds of
fears and anxieties (as well as concomitant desires) plague modernist
literature and culture? How is the Gothic related to important modernist
concerns, such as formal experimentation in literature and arts,
transformations of gender and sexual identities and related political
engagements, the crisis of liberal humanism, and others? I am looking for
papers on any aspect of Gothic literature or art in the modernist period,
on Gothic elements in ostensibly non-Gothic works of this period, or on
modernist events (World War I, for example) seen as Gothic experiences.
Interdisciplinary work is especially welcome.
Please send 1-2 page proposals to Dejan Kuzmanovic at the address below by
May 25, 1999. Direct any inquiries to the same address. E-mail submissions
are welcome. Please note that this panel has not yet been approved by the
conference program committee. That decision will be made by June 30,
1999, after the complete panel is proposed to the committee.
Dejan Kuzmanovic
Department of English, MS-30
Rice University
6100 South Main St.
Houston, TX 77005-1892
dkuzman@rice.edu
(713) 864-8840
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