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A special session on the
relation between science and sensation in the work of Wilkie Collins at the
Midwest Modern Language Association 2013 conference that focuses on the theme
or Art and Artifice.
Accused of such literary crimes as sensationalism
and dilettantism, Collins is too often dismissed as a writer of lighter fare,
passed over for studies of the period's more serious writers - like Dickens,
for instance, with whom he worked closely as a journalist for Household Words
and as a a dramatist. This session puts Collins and his work in the
critical spotlight, looking from an interdisplinary perspective at how
Collins's writing explored deeper social issues - marriage, sexuality, ethics
and science, to name but a few - while catering to his audience's taste for art
and artifice.
We are particularly
interested in papers that explore Collins' writing that receives less critical
attention.
Deadline for abstracts June
14, 2013
Please submit a 300 word
proposal and a brief bio to
Professors Elizabeth
Anderman and Erika Behrisch Elce:
