Call for Papers for a Proposed Special Session at the MLA:
"New Perspectives on the Somerville College Novelists"
This is a working title that may very well change based on the composition
of the panel as it evolves. What work is being done--or should be--with the
fictional productions of this cluster identified by Vera Brittain in 1929?
Where do they fit in the larger pictures of 20th century women's fiction
and/or British fiction? Do recent developments in gender studies offer new
models that can fruitfully be brought to bear on their works? In what
contexts other than feminist literary history do they deserve to be
considered? Why do the novels Susan J. Leonardi identified as most daring
in _Dangerous by Degrees_ (1989) continue to go (apparently) unstudied,
while Dorothy Sayers' genre fiction has received far more critical attention
than any of the more "serious" fiction by others in this group? Are they
still dangerous today?
Any approaches that broaden our understanding of their roles or relevance
(historical, cultural, literary); proposals on individuals or the
collective group are welcome.
1-page abstracts by 15 March to:
Michelle N. Mimlitsch
UCLA Department of English
Box 90095-1530
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1530
michelle@mimlitsch.com
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Michelle N. Mimlitsch
Department of English, UCLA
michelle@mimlitsch.com
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"Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to
be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it
seemed vile; corrected and tore up; cut out; put in; was in ecstasy; in
despair; had his good nights and bad mornings; snatched at ideas and lost
them; saw his book plain before him and it vanished; . . . now cried; now
laughed; vacillated between this style and that; . . . and could not decide
whether he was the divinest genius or the greatest fool in the world."
- Virginia Woolf, _Orlando_
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