CFP: Stoicism & Sentiment in 18th C. (9/15/03; ASECS, 3/24/04-3/28/04)

Deadline is 9/15/03.

"Sentimentalism, Stoicism, and 'Unhappy Consciousness': The Politics of
Feeling from Restoration Tragedy to Romantic Theory" George Boulukos, Dept.
of English, Southern Illinois U., Carbondale, Mailcode 4503 Carbondale, IL
62901-4503; Tel: 618-453-6810; Fax: 618-453-8224; E-mail: boulukos_at_siu.edu

This panel will reopen the question of how stoicism served as a
counterweight to sentimentality throughout the long eighteenth-century.
While many scholarly discussions of sentimentality ignore stoicism
altogether, several influential recent treatments of sentimentalism present
stoicism as having a significant, if circumscribed, role to play in
sentimental culture. Most strikingly, Julie Ellison, in Cato's Tears,
treats stoicism as a philosophical and affective stance integral to
republicanism and liberalism. Building on Ellison's work without taking its
arguments for granted, this seminar will expand our sense of stoicism's
political and cultural significance. Appropriate topics include how
evocations of stoicism engage with sentimental politics; whether classical
models of stoicism trump popular literary models of the philosophy; and
what purchase Hegel's critique of Stoicism, in his Phenomenology, as a
necessary but nonetheless tedious and superficial mode of consciousness
might have on eighteenth-century and Romantic texts. Submissions by email
(to boulukos_at_siu.edu) preferred.

Deadline is 9/15/03.

George Boulukos
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Mailcode 4503
Carbondale, Illinois 62901-4503

boulukos_at_siu.edu
(618) 453-6810
(618) 453-8224 (fax)

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