CALL FOR PAPERS
Panel Topic: Mary Shelley
Rocky Mountain MLA Convention, 58th Annual Meeting
September 30 – October 2, 2004
Millenium Harvest House Hotel, Boulder, Colorado
Hosted by University of Colorado, Boulder
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2004
Few have attempted and even fewer have succeeded in taking a
comprehensive and balanced look at Shelley’s life and career beyond The
Last Man. Indeed, literary critics and historians most often describe
her long career in terms of specious shifts: a biographical shift from
Romantic mistress-wife to Victorian widow and a political shift from
radical liberal to conservative “hack”. Such attempts to contain
Shelley to neat and tidy categories (before/after P. B. Shelley,
Romantic/Victorian, radical/conservative) requires that one deny, omit,
or oversimplify aspects—whole decades, in fact—of her biography and
work.
This panel offers an opportunity to intensively examine the ambiguities
and ambivalences implicit within Mary Shelley's long career. Any
proposal that deals with some aspect of Shelleyean dichotomies is
welcome. Special consideration will be given proposals critically
addressing Shelley’s life and/or work of the 1830s and 40s, including
her late novels, short stories, literary lives, and travelogues.
Email or send 300-word abstracts by 1 March 2004 to:
Dr. Erin Webster-Garrett
Department of English
Radford University, Radford, VA 24141
ewebster2@radford.edu
Please see the RMMLA Website for information regarding membership and
Conference registration: http://rmmla.wsu.edu
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