CFP: The Vocabulary (or iconography) of the Breast in the C18th (ASECS,
April 2002)
"Multiplying Breasts"
This panel considers how the bared female breast, imagined or literalized as
such, serves as a site upon which many Eighteenth-century ideologies are
built. We wish to explore how and why this particular image -- used
variously as a mark of Amazonian separatism, female sensibility, religious
devotion and Revolutionary fervor -- recurs in so many forms of cultural
expression across the century. Especially intriguing is the persistent
conjunction of breasts and daggers, violence or threat. What is it about
the bared female breast that lends it to such widely ranging representations
? Can we trace the development of a 'vocabulary' of breast iconography in
eighteenth-century texts ?
Please send abstracts of roughly 250 words (1 page) by 14 September 2001 to:
aarndt@uci.edu
Dept of English and Comparative Literature, 435 HIB, UC Irvine, Irvine CA
92697-2650
email submissions prefered.
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