CFP: Complex Gender Legacies of Alcott's Little Women (4/15/05; MMLA, 11/10/05-11/13/05)

Session Title: Complex Gender Legacies of Alcott's Little Women

Our proposal suits this year's M/MLA theme of "History, Memory, and
Exile" in that it examines a novel of historical importance--Louisa May
Alcott's Little Women--in terms of both its historical context and the
complex legacy it leaves to descendent texts and readers. This session
examines the cultural work of Alcott's masterpiece as a play space
where boundaries of age, class, and gender may be transcended; as an
influential post-sentimental text that exploits sentimental traditions
in order to subvert them; as a predecessor text to tales of
cross-dressed heroines in later fiction; and as an instrument of gender
socialization in Alcott's time and since.

Submit paper abstracts via e-mail attachment (Word, WordPerfect, or
PDF) by April 15 to:
Mary Lamb Shelden
Northern Illinois University
mshelden_at_niu.edu

Must be a member of M/MLA by June 1 in order to participate.

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