Call for Papers: the Victorians Institute for 2000
THIS STRANGE DISEASE
OF MODERN LIFE
VICTORIAN ILLNESS, HEALTH & MEDICINE
hosted by
the University of South Carolina
in Columbia, South Carolina
Friday, October 6th--Saturday October 7th, 2000
The Victorians, and Victorian texts, seem obsessed with illness, and
Victorian attitudes to health and medicine seem even more alien and
obsessive than their attitudes to illness. For this year's Victorians
Institute, we seek short papers exploring specific cultural, literary and
historical symptoms of this widespread Victorian dis-ease, both through
the rereading of single texts and the examination of relevant historical
or biographical cruxes. Within this broad focus, welcome issues for
discussion will include: public health as social vision or nightmare; the
gendering of Victorian illness and health; the emergent
professionalization of Victorian medicine, its unprofessional shadows, and
the contested images of medicine, surgery and nursing; diseases of the
mind or soul; the interrelations of illness with class; the lexicon of
disease, contagious, infectious and miasmal; and the topography of
illness, at home and abroad.
To ensure adequate time for discussion, papers should not exceed 18
minutes in reading time; we welcome also well-planned visual presentations
or informal discussion that will (within the same time-limit) introduce
and summarize a more formal written paper that the presenter will
distribute at the session.
The conference program begins after lunch on Friday, and concludes at
approximately 5.30 p.m. on Saturday. The Victorians Institute meeting at
the University of South Carolina is sponsored by the University of South
Carolina's Department of English, the College of Liberal Arts, the Women's
Studies Program, Thomas Cooper Library, Office of Pre-Professional
Advising, and the Nineteenth-Century Club, and co-directed by Patrick
Scott and William B. Thesing.
Deadline for receipt of proposals: July 31, 2000
Mail or e-mail proposals (7-9 page paper or one-page abstract, with name,
contact information, and a brief bio note) to:
Professor Patrick Scott,
Victorians Institute 2000,
Department of English,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208
e-mail: scottp@gwm.sc.edu
tel: 803-777-1275
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