The focus of this panel will be to explore the intimate relationship
between bodies and cities in nineteenth-century American writing. Papers
from any methodological perspective are encouraged, from materialist
analyses to psychoanalytic approaches to discussions of discourses of the
body and the body/city as text. Inter-disciplinary work is also
particularly welcome. Examined texts may be popular or canonical, fiction
or non-fiction. Possible topics might include:
*the body of the city itself (the gendering of urban space(s)
* the "porno-gothic" worlds of the antebellum city mysteries
*the ideological mapping of the city through urban guidebooks and other
topographical genres
*fears and fantasies about the urban underclass
*the relationship between domestic and urban spaces in sentimental urban
novels
*a focus on particular types of specifically urban bodies (the prostitute,
the dandy; the street child, the urban masses)
*the street as a site of collision between different types of bodies
(between those of different races/classes/ethnicities, or between women
and men)
*the dangerously exposed body of the narrator in the genre of the urban
expose
*the city as imagined through the lenses of sensationalism,
sentimentalism, and other discourses of embodiment
*the cityUs material resistance to representation or narrative
containment; etc.
Please send proposals/papers to my e-mail or snail mail addresses below by
SEPTEMBER 15, and do include information on how to reach you by phone.
Thanks!
hroberts@clarku.edu
Heather Roberts
Department of English
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
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