The Frontiers of Charles Brockden Brown
A group of Brown scholars will host a conference to explore the frontiers
of sensation and topography in the life, writing and culture of Charles
Brockden Brown. The conference organizers conceive "frontiers" both
broadly and narrowly. Broadly speaking, frontiers are "multiple sites of
exchange among different groups, cultures, and nations" (Teute and Cayton,
_Contact Points_); more narrowly, "frontiers" exist at particular
geographical sites in Brown's work, in his early Republican context, and
now at the end of the twentieth century.
Brown explored the frontiers of many issues in cultural crisis--gender,
psychology, class, not to mention the canon and the literal frontier
landscape. The Western frontier of Brown's native eighteenth-century
Pennsylvania has now moved as far westward as the Pacific: two centuries
after his life, Las Vegas represents just such a far West site of
sensation, sensationalism, and the outer borders of aesthetic and cultural
experimentation.
The conference will be held October 27-29, 2000, in Las Vegas. We invite
1-2 pp. abstracts on the following topics under the organizing principle of
"frontiers":
--gender, women, queer theory, domestic ideology
--race and/or ethnicity
--psychology and physiology
--sensation, sentiment, sympathy, the body
--commerce, economics, gambling
--expansionism, colonialism, imperialism, the North Atlantic,European
connections
--class, the marketplace, popular culture, the canon
--cultural spaces of the 1790s: gothicicms, romanticisms, revolution
debates, translation
--history of the book/ literary marketplace
--republicanism, liberalism, countersubversion, right-wing paranoia
--history and historiography, historical time, revolutionary time,
narratology, epistolarity
--geography, urbanism, space, topography, domesticity, architecture
Open Topics
Send abstracts by May 15, 2000 to:
Martin Brueckner
mcb@odin.english.udel.edu
OR
English Department
041 Memorial Hall
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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