CALL FOR PAPERS
Proposed Special Session for the 2002 MLA Convention, New York
The Female Gothic: *Representing Lives
We are looking for papers that explore the complex ways in which the female Gothic functioned as a template for artists, writers, religious dissenters, and others in the Romantic period who represented their lives, work, or beliefs within the framework of this popular form of narrative and its conventions. These authors appropriated a highly formalized set of conventions (in particular the Gothic heroine's negotiation of her own subjectivity in a world that has become unrecognizable and menacing) to articulate their varied forms of resistance to, or compliance with, the institutionalized authority of church and state. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
-- critical assessments of the use of Gothic tropes in letters, memoirs, diaries, poetry, and novels of the Romantic period
-- studies of contemporary imitations or revisions of Ann Radcliffe's model of the female Gothic
-- new theoretical approaches to the link between transgression and gender--and the problems*of representation--in Romantic-era Gothic texts.
Email 1-2 page abstracts and brief CVs (preferably as attachments in MS Word) to either anneclose1@yahoo.com or osmith@luc.edu by March 15, 2002.
Anne Close
Orianne Smith
English Department
Loyola University Chicago
6525 North Sheridan Road
Chicago, Illinois 60626
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