CFP: Religious Discourse and the 19th-Century Novel (3/15/03; MLA '03)

CFP: Religious Discourse and the Nineteenth-Century Novel (3/15/03; MLA '03)

This proposed special session seeks to reinvigorate discussion surrounding
religion and the nineteenth-century novel by framing "religion" as a
confluence of discourses and by understanding how the nineteenth-century
novel constructed itself through and against these various forms of speaking
and writing. Papers may address novels written in any language and either
Christian or non-Christian forms of religious discourse. Priority will be
given to papers that offer a transferable theoretical model of the
intersection of the nineteenth-century novel with a religious genre.

Possible genres and discourses informing the novel might include lives of
the saints, lives of Christ, tracts, sermons, devotional manuals, prayer
books, spiritual diaries, hymns, spiritual autobiographies, testimonies,
theological essays, journalism in religious periodicals, and conversion
narratives.

Important: accepted panelists must be members of the MLA by April 1, 2003.

Please submit title, 1-2 page abstract, and brief CV by March 15 to
dawnc_at_stanford.edu or to:

Dawn Coleman
Department of English
450 Serra Mall
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305

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