The following CFP is for a panel at the 2001 MLA meeting in New Orleans:
REVISIONING DOMESTICITY IN POSTBELLUM AMERICAN LITERATURE
Scholarship on American domestic literature has developed into an impressive
body of work. But most of it engages with American domesticity as an
antebellum phenomenon. For this panel proposal we are seeking papers that
examine postbellum literature as domestic literature and/or examine changing
notions of domesticity in literature written after the Civil War.
We are especially interested in papers that envision new directions for
research that will take the study of domestic literature into new
territory -- building upon past work on American domesticity in some
significant way or challenging past assumptions about domestic literature as
a genre.
Possible topics to consider:
* the intersection of domesticity with issues of social reform
* domesticity and mobility, immigration, or class
* domesticity and domestication or education
* domesticity and modernity or publicity
* domesticity and professionalism
Send a 1-2 page proposal by mail or email (email preferred)by 15 March 2001
to:
Lydia Fisher
lif@u.washington.edu
or
Julie Prebel
jep@u.washington.edu
address:
Department of English
University of Washington
Box 354330
Seattle, WA 98195-4330
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