I am organizing a panel for the upcoming meeting of ASECS in New Orleans
(the CFP follows). My e-mail has recently changed, so if you are
interested in submitting a proposal, please do so to my new email:
c.harol@mail.humnet.utah.edu.
Thank you,
Corrinne Harol
University of Utah
Department of English
"Sex, Politics and Literature in England, 1660-1730"
This panel will explore the literary relationship between sex and
politics in the Restoration and early eighteenth-century. In literature
of the period, sex is often used to encode political discourse and
likewise politics can be used to encode sex. Sex and politics, that is,
can have allegorical, metaphorical, and narratological relationships.
This panel will, collectively, explore the implications of this mutual
referentiality. I am especially interested in papers that address
Restoration representations of monarchy or that explore the generic and
gender issues in literary representations of Tory and Whig politics. I
am open both to essays that provide reading of literary texts and that
address the theoretical and methodological implications of this kind of
investigation. For example, what does it mean to use the sexualized
body as a political vehicle? What does it mean to conceive of sexual
practice as related to political practice? What are the implications and
ramifications of a literary criticism committed to decoding the
political aspects of sexualized representations?
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