UPDATE: Community in/and 18th Century English Literature (3/17/03; SCMLA, 10/30/03-11/1/03)

Call for Papers
English III Regular Session: Restoration and Eighteenth Century
SCMLA
2003 Conference
Hot Springs, AR October 30 through November 1

DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 17

Papers are sought dealing with the idea of community in the literature of
the "long eighteenth century." Possible topics include, but are not
limited to:

--representations of community in eighteenth-century literature
--representations of dislocation in eighteenth-century literature
--creation of new and/or imaginary communities by means of literature
--destruction of traditional communities by means of new literary
technologies
--revision of the idea of what constitutes a "community" in the eighteenth
century
--communities of race, gender, or sexuality as represented in or
affected by eighteenth-century literature
--"the monstrous," or the community's other, in the eighteenth century.

Proposals based on a 300-word abstract are due to the session chair no
later than March 15, 2003. Chairs will notify those who have submitted
proposals of acceptance or rejection by April 7, 2003.

Please send your proposal in plain text as part of the body of an email
message; no attachments, please. Contact information:
dlensing2002_at_yahoo.com

Dennis M. Lensing
English Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131

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