We invite submissions for our special session to be held at NASSR 2000 in
Tempe. AZ.
Our goal is to reopen a discussion of the picturesque that will
present multiple perspectives on this aesthetic. Possible
topics could address (but are not limited to) the following:
A. PHYSICALITY OF TRAVEL
--moving through space as a viewer and the travelling process itself:
"stations," inns, carriages, hiking, clothing, Knick-knacks,
guidebooks
--Imaginative vs. physical space
(readers of Gilpin disappointed because his sketches did not
resemble actual scenery; Gilpin sketching Furness
Abbey from other descriptions, rather than at the actual site)
--conditions of weather, time, light patterns, etc.
--picturesque and the New Psychology, especially cognitive neuroscience
--field of vision: the subjective eye
B. TRAVEL AND GENDER
--women's reception (picturesque and the bluestockings, etc.)
--gender issues (were women excluded from issues of "taste"; was this
exclusion uniform over [70 odd] years of picturesque tourism?
--association of "touristic shame" with the reception of and writing on
the picturesque
--women, physicality, and travel through open spaces
--landscape aesthetics and India
C. AGRICULTURE
--mobilization of agricultural laborers
--agricultural gaze
D. ECOLOGY
--how do debates about landscape improvement (Price, Knight,
Repton) engage ecological issues?
--ecological impact of tourism
--enclosure as domestic imperialism
--enclosures and open space
Please submit proposals (paper or abstract) to both Gary Harrison and Jill
Heydt-Stevenson by January 15, 2000.
Jill Heydt-Stevenson
Department of English
Campus Box 226
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
jill.heydt@colorado.edu
Gary Harrison
Department of English
Humanities #217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
garyh@unm.edu
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