10th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference

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CALL FOR PAPERS—NEW Deadline: September 30, 2001

The annual conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers invites proposals for its 10th meeting, to be held April 19-21, 2002, in Madison, Wisconsin. The theme of this year's conference will be "Evolving Domains of Knowledge and Representation."  Our Website address is http://mendota.english.wisc.edu/~BWWC

The conference is devoted to expanding the literary canon and to developing critical and theoretical understandings of women's writing traditions in literary, medical, political, legal, religious, cultural, and scientific discourses. We are proud to welcome Gillian Beer, Tilottama Rajan, and Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace as our keynote speakers.

While scholarship on all aspects of Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century British Women Writers is welcome, we especially encourage papers on the following subjects:

--Lesser-known or non-canonical women writers
--Travel and travel writing, 18th and 19th century 
   periodicals, periodical culture and readerships, technical 
   publications, etc.
--Developments in the sciences & medicine, knowledge 
   and/or representations of the body, negotiations of public
   discourses (of health, the body, etc.) 
--Revolution, historiography 
--Literary history (& women writers in/out of it), the 
   literary establishment/literary markets, bluestockings/ 
   literary salons, women as readers, gender and genre 
--(Re)presentations of women in visual culture/theater/ 
   dance/music
--Motherhood in/and literature, gendered spaces and 
   domains, gender and work/social class/poverty and 
   wealth/depictions of welfare
--Representations of the city/of nature, the intellectual & 
   the sentimental 
--Gender and material/commodity culture, the marketplace/ 
   advertising 
--Pornography/representation of sex/sexology.
--Reflections on canonical developments, period definitions 
   and women’s scholarship over the past decade

Send 1-2 page abstracts for papers and proposals for panels (with a brief cover sheet indicating your name, mailing address, and e-mail address) by September 15, 2001, to the following address:

Elizabeth Evans
University of Wisconsin-Madison
600 N. Park, Box 615
Madison, WI  53706

**If you submit a panel, please provide a moderator as well.