Call for Papers
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Midwest Modern Language Association Conference 2004
English Literature 1800-1900
St. Louis, Missouri November 4-7, 2004
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Maladies, Madness, Miracles, Monsters, and Medicine:
Representation of the Body in Victorian Culture
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The Victorians were obsessed with issues of illness and health, with
issues of the body. This panel will explore representations of the
healthy/ill body from a variety of cultural texts and
contexts--religious, medical, political, philosophical, literary,
theatrical, military, colonial, and social.=20
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Possible Topics:
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* The Body as Healthy/Diseased, Normal/Monstrous
* Victorian Illnesses, such as consumption, cholera, typhoid, and other
fevers, etc.
* Victorian Psychological Concepts, such as phrenology, hysteria,
monomania, mesmerism, etc.
* Public Health and Issues of Reform
* The Sickroom and the Hospital, the Attic and the Asylum
* Midwives, Nurses, Surgeons, Apothecaries, Physicians,
Alienists, and Quacks
* The Professionalization of Medicine
* Medical Facts, Medical Myths, and Medical Fantasies
* The Gendering of Illness and Health
* Medical, Religious, or Political Representations of the Body
* Artistic or Photographic Representations of the Body
* Literary or Theatrical Representations of the Body
* The Imperial/Colonial Body: Disease and Politics Abroad
* Intemperance and the Temperance Movement
* Opium and Addiction
* Abuse, Violence, Murder, Suicide, and the Criminal Body
* Birth, Death, and the Aging Body
* Desire and Deviant Bodies =20
* Social and Medical Pathologies
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Deadline: Post-Marked by March 15, 2004. Please send an abstract
(one-page single-spaced typed) with cover letter, including your contact
information to Dr. Beth Torgerson, Department of English, Box 1027,
Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL 32084-1027
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For questions or electronic submissions, contact Beth Torgerson at
btorgerson@flagler.edu <mailto:btorgerson@flagler.edu> .
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