Call for Papers
Panel on Victorian Obsessions
NEMLA 2002: Toronto, Canada. April 12-13, 2002
Host Institution: University of Toronto
Convention Hotel: Westin Harbour Castle
After a century-long absence, the word "obsession" returned in 1824 to
English dictionaries, which defined it primarily as "a mental fixation"
(though one lacking any of the clinical connotations that it represents to
us today) while also documenting its more archaic senses of "a siege" and
"a spiritual haunting." This return was accompanied by a British interest
in the conceptually related French terms "ide fixe" (a recurrent theme)
and "monomania" (a mental fixation that did connote what we would
recognize today as clinical obsession).
Papers are welcome on any medical, historical, political, social, or
literary consideration of obsession, monomania, or compulsion in Victorian
England, though of particular interest will be papers that find obsession,
monomania, or compulsion productive for the culture or the individual in
some way.
For information on NEMLA 2002: http://www.nova.edu/~stoddart/
One-page abstracts must be received by September 15, 2001. Please submit
to:
jhodge@emerald.tufts.edu
or
Jon Hodge
English Department
East Hall
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155
TEL: 781-391-4603
FAX: 617-627-3606
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