Call for Papers for a proposed special session at the Northeast /
American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2002 Conference(City
University of New York Grad Center, October 17-19)
Session Proposal: Enlightenment and Postmodernity
This session proposes to explore issues of artistic experimentation and
literary history through a study of the correspondences between
eighteenth- and twentieth-century texts. Eighteenth-century texts like
Gulliver's Travels and Tristram Shandy defy categorization and seem
decidedly "postmodern," while postmodern novels and films have invoked
the eighteenth-century in form and/or subject matter: Nabokov's Pale
Fire, John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor, Stanley Kubrick's "Barry
Lyndon," and Tony Richardson's "Tom Jones," to name a few. Why have
postmodern authors and filmmakers been drawn to the eighteenth century?
What aspects of eighteenth-century culture had most resonance for the
1960s and 70s, and how does that understanding of the Enlightenment
differ from that of the present day? I welcome papers on both
postmodern interpretations of the eighteenth-century and eighteenth-
century prefigurings of the postmodern.
Please send proposals by March 10th to
Anne Stevens
Department of English
New York University
19 University Place, 5th floor
New York, NY 10003
Or e-mail to ahs201@nyu.edu
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