Apologies for cross-listings.
CALL FOR PAPERS for a special session entitled
"Sex and the Victorian City" at the M/MLA Annual
Convention, Nov 4-7, St. Louis, Missouri
The session proposes to examine the way the
urbanization of nineteenth-century Britain produces
versions of Victorian masculinity and femininity.
Mid-century novelists like Elizabeth Gaskell and
Charles Dickens formulated sex--in terms of
street walkers and prostitutes--and the city--as
London, Manchester, and other urban centers--in their
many works, and Dickens’s journal Household Words was
the venue for various fictional and non-fictional
versions of the urban experience. Papers addressing
the Gaskell, Dickens, or other writers who foreground
the city as a space for sexual vagrancy, prostitution,
class conflict, emerging gender roles, or other topics
are welcome.
Please send 1 page abstract and CV by April 23. Send
by email attachment to Erin Obermueller, Saint Louis
University at obermuev@yahoo.com.
or, by post to
Erin V. Obermueller
Dept. of English
Saint Louis University
3800 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis MO 63108
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