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Urbanism and Urbanity
Annual Conference of the Nineteenth Century Studies
Association,
March 20-22, 2014
Chicago, IL.
For a panel tentatively titled “The City and the Country in
the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination,” I’m seeking proposals for
20-minute papers addressing urban/rural tensions and contradictions. Broadly
interpreted, that could include art, music, and literature invoking nostalgia
for the rural, rural dialects, urbanism v. the rural in Englishness,
industrialization of the countryside and other land-use issues, the back to the
land movement, country weekends, interest in rural folklore, the yokel “Hodge”
as seen by city-dwellers, environmental concerns, etc.
Please email 250-word abstracts (or questions, ideas, etc.)
by August 15 to Dr. Deborah Maltby, Associate Teaching Professor of
English, University of Missouri-St. Louis: maltbyd@umsl.edu.
