CFP: The Self-Made Woman (9/15/04; NEMLA, 3/31/05-4/2/05)

The Self-made Woman: Competing Modes of Self-fashioning in the Victorian Novel.
The 2005 NEMLA Convention - Cambridge, Massachussetts, March 31-April 2.

Seeking papers investigating the intersections between gender and self-determination and analyzing the tensions between competing means for shaping personal representation and asserting a self in the novels of Victorian women writers.

Proposals may include analyses of different forms of self-making such as narrative, clothing, performance, disguise and economic forms of agency, as well as the role of gender in the options and outcomes for female characters. Please email queries and 175-250 word proposals to Elizabeth Bleicher, Department of English, University of Southern California by September 15. bleicher_at_usc.edu

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