This panel has been accepted for presentation at ASECS 2002 (April 3-7,
Colorado Springs, CO).
Panel title: "The Unsex'd Men of the Eighteenth Century"
This panel proposes to explore the ways in which the eighteenth-century
novel constructs masculinity. I open up such an exploration against the
fact that female characters have been genderized entirely--meaning by
whom, how and to what extent they were or have been gendered. Male
development, on the other hand, has not been considered in nearly as
much depth or detail. I invite papers that consider male characters, in
any combination, as: heroes, villains, fathers, uncles, brothers,
aristocrats, sodomites, fops, men of feeling, criminals, virgins,
servants, monsters, doctors, merchants, and clergy, be they central,
secondary or marginal characters. What can we learn by examining these
various masculinities within a range of fictional and historical
contexts?
Please send proposals of approximately 250 words by September 14, 2001.
Apply to: Helen Oesterheld
hcroach@uci.edu
e-mail submissions preferred
Or: Helen Oesterheld
The University of California, Irvine
Department of English and Comparative Literature
435 Humanities Instructional Building
Irvine, CA 92697-2650
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