CFP: Revisiting Modernism and Madness (3/15/03; MLA '03)

Revisiting Modernism and Madness

Histories of modernism and madness often tell of hysteria, neurasthenia, and
shell shock. For a proposed Special Session at the 2003 MLA Convention in
San Diego, I seek abstracts of talks that offer alternative histories of
early twentieth-century psychical dissolution.

I will consider proposals that concern hysteria, neurasthenia, and shell
shock, but am especially interested in work that is being done on other
manifestations of ³madness² in the early twentieth century.

Speakers accepted to the panel will need to be members of the MLA by April
7, 2003; the convention will be held from 12/27/03-12/30/03.

1-page abstracts (no complete papers or longer proposals) by March 15 to
coffman_at_ucsc.edu

Chris Coffman
Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature
University of California, Santa Cruz

Mailing Address:
Cowell College Faculty Services
University of California, Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 95064

http://people.ucsc.edu/~coffman

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