International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Quadrennial Congress 2003, Los Angeles
The Eleventh ISECS Congress on the Enlightenment will take place 3-10 August
2003 at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Session: Old & New Formalisms
Chair: Mary Helen McMurran, Harper Fellow, University of Chicago
In this panel I would like to foster a discussion of form as a problem in
eighteenth-century thought. I am particularly interested in such questions as:
What was the Enlightenment's contribution to naturalizing the idea of form?
What might be occluded by the desire for, and development of form in
literature, science or other fields of inquiry? What is the relationship of
form with unity and cohesion? What were the alternatives to the idea of form?
Issues that could be addressed include: Enlightenment ideas of form in racial,
ethnic and national stereotypes; the nation-form and its alternatives; literary
forms and challenges to unity; legacies of eighteenth-century ideas of form in
contemporary criticism.
Send one-page paper proposals for twenty-minute papers by September 1, 2002 to
mmcmurra@uchicago.edu
For more information on the conference, go to
http://www.isecs.ucla.edu/
Mary Helen McMurran
University of Chicago
2001-2002, NEH Fellow, Huntington Library
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