>UPDATE
>
>CALL FOR PAPERS-Deadline: September 30, 2001
>
>Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
>
>The annual conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
>invites proposals for its 10th meeting, to be held April 19-21, 2002, in
>Madison, Wisconsin. The theme of this year's conference will be "Evolving
>Domains of Knowledge and Representation." Our Website address is
>http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~BWWC
>
>The conference is devoted to expanding the literary canon and to
>developing critical and theoretical understandings of women's writing
>traditions in literary, medical, political, legal, religious, cultural,
>and scientific discourses. We are proud to welcome Gillian Beer, Tilottama
>Rajan, and Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace as our keynote speakers.
>
>While scholarship on all aspects of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century
>British Women Writers is welcome, we especially encourage papers on the
>following subjects:
--Lesser-known or non-canonical women writers
--Travel and travel writing, 18th and 19th century periodicals, periodical
culture and readerships, technical publications, etc.
>--Developments in the sciences & medicine, knowledge and/or
>representations of the body, negotiations of public discourses (of health,
>the body, etc.)
>--Revolution, historiography
>--Literary history (& women writers in/out of it), the literary
>establishment/ literary markets, bluestockings/literary salons, women as
>readers, gender and genre
>--(Re)presentations of women in visual culture/ theater/dance/music
>--Motherhood in/and literature, gendered spaces and domains, gender and
>work/social class/poverty and wealth/depictions of welfare
>--Representations of the city/of nature, the intellectual & the sentimental
>--Gender and material/commodity culture, the marketplace/advertising
>--Pornography/representation of sex/sexology.
>--Reflections on canonical developments, period definitions and women's
>scholarship over the past decade
>
>Send 1-2 page abstracts for papers and proposals for panels (with a brief
>cover sheet indicating your name, mailing address, and e-mail address) by
>September 30, 2001, to the following address:
>
>Elizabeth Evans
>University of Wisconsin-Madison
>600 N. Park, Box 615
>Madison, WI 53706
>
>**If you submit a panel, please provide a moderator as well.
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Jennifer Griffith
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park #620
Madison, WI 53706
608-263-2787
jrgriff1@facstaff.wisc.edu
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