CFP: Mesmerism in Victorian Literature (7/31; collection)

From: Martin Willis (M.Willis@worc.ac.uk)
Date: Tue Jun 20 2000 - 17:17:57 EDT

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    Dear All

    Expressions of interest are invited for a new collection of essays
    on Mesmerism and Literature. The collection will focus on literary
    representations of mesmerism and mesmeric phenomena in the
    Victorian period and may include the themes and authors listed
    below. These lists are far from exclusive and potential contributors are
    invited to interpret 'mesmerism and literature' broadly.

    Themes: gender, empire, science, the occult, mediumship,
    the new woman, the public, spiritualism

    Authors: Charles Dickens, Harriet Martineau, Richard Marsh, Rider
    Haggard, Oscar Wilde, Grant Allen, George du Maurier, Nathanael
    Hawthorne, Honore de Balzac.

    The collection is currently seeking a publisher and therefore asks
    for expressions of interest only, in order to give any prospective
    publisher an exemplary contents list.
    Please email a title and 200 word summary of your paper (final
    length to be 6-8 thousand words) by July 31, 2000 to BOTH editors:

    Catherine Wynne, University of Hull at Scarborough
    (catherine.wynne@ucscarb.ac.uk)
    and
    Martin Willis, University College Worcester
    (m.willis@worc.ac.uk)

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