CALL FOR PAPERS
15th Annual DeBartolo Conference
February 15-17, 2001
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY INVENTION
The Department of English at the University of South Florida announces =
the fifteenth annual DeBartolo Conference on Eighteenth-century Studies, =
which will meet in Tampa on February 15-17, 2001. The conference will =
feature presentations by distinguished scholars, including Paula =
Backscheider (Auburn University), Anita Guerrini (University of =
California, Santa Barbara) and Pat Rogers (University of South Florida).
We invite abstracts and panel proposals along the theme of invention. =
Homogeneous, heterogeneous, incredibly rich, the "long" 18th century =
furnished inventions, both actual and metaphoric. From Pope=92s =
criticism of the "invention of money" to the touted advances of forceps, =
from notions of credit to the concept of nationhood, the spirit of =
invention raised the wonder and skepticism of the age. Proposers might =
explore the relationship between legal innovations and their effects, as =
exemplified by the invention of copyright and the production of =
authorship. Papers might discuss generic invention, such as the gothic =
novel or sentimental poetry, or the origins of the novel itself. =
"Invention" as both an aesthetic quality and an objective of technology =
offers a productive overlap in the fields of arts and sciences, and we =
encourage submissions that address theatre, literature and the visual =
arts as well as medicine, physics and chemistry. Constructions of new =
concepts of identity, race, and gender that have been attributed to the =
age might also be explored.=20
Please send one-page abstracts by September 15, 2000 to:
Laura Runge
Department of English
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Avenue, CPR 107
Tampa, FL 33620-5550
Fax: (813) 974-2270
e-mail: runge@chuma.cas.usf.edu
www.cas.usf.edu/english/debartolo
USF is committed to all affirmative action/equal opportunity policies.
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Laura L. Runge
Associate Professor of English
University of South Florida
http://www.stpt.usf.edu/~runge/
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