CFP: Critical Survey "Sporting Victorians" Issue (5/16/2011)

Sporting Victorians

In the light of the forthcoming 2012 London Olympics, the journal Critical Survey seeks proposals for 4,000-6,000 word articles discussing some of the cultural, national, social and political issues that sport encompassed in Britain in the years 1800-1914. The nineteenth century saw the rise of professionalism in sport and the emergence of women as participants. The topic of sport also engaged a wide range of novelists, poets, dramatists, painters and journalists - both as commentators and participants - from Byron's swimming to J.M. Barrie's cricket team. It is hoped that the topic's multi-disciplinary appeal will be apparent in some of the submissions.

Subjects might include but are not limited to the following:

• sport and literature
• sporting writers
• sport and gender
• sport and nation
• sport and the theatre
• empire
• the professionalization of sport
• sport and the countryside (including hunting)
• sport and the city
• sporting heroes
• sport and entertainment (including gambling)
• sport and crime
• sport and the body (including `Muscular Christianity')
• Hellenism
• sport and ethnicity
• sport and health

Please email proposals (of approximately 500 words) by 16 May 2011 to:
Andrew Maunder
Editor, Critical Survey
a.c.maunder@herts.ac.uk
http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/cs/

Final essays will be due in by 31 December 2011 and the journal issue will be published in spring 2012.

Queries about this special issue of the Journal are welcome.

Extended Deadline: Call for Volume Papers "Robert Louis Stevenson, Essayist" (3/31/2011)

Renewed call for volume papers: "Robert Louis Stevenson, Essayist"


Richard Dury and R-L Abrahamson will be guest-editing a special number of the Journal of Stevenson Studies dedicated to "Robert Louis Stevenson, Essayist."

In order to obtain a good coverage of the topic, the cfp has been renewed. We invite brief proposals (with summary CVs of relevant background studies) by 31st March 2011. Manuscripts are to be delivered by 1 October 2011 for publication in mid-2012. For the renewed cfp we are particularly interested in proposals on:

• RLS in the English essay tradition
• Stevenson's essays from the 1870s
• The Scribner's essays as a group
• Travel and topographical essays
• RLS's essays and ethics
• RLS's essays and science
• RLS's essays on literature (except 'Popular Authors' and 'A Gossip on
• Romance', already covered)
• RLS's essays and the visual arts

contact: Richard Dury (dury@unibg.it), R-L Abrahamson
(rabraham@faculty.ed.umuc.edu)


Journal of Stevenson Studies: http://www.english.stir.ac.uk/research/profile/stevensonstudies.php

Reminder: PAMLA Special Session "Materialisms in Victorian Literature and Culture" (3/17/2011; 11/10-11/2011)

Special Session

Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA)

Scripps College, Claremont, CA 91711

November 10-11, 2011

Panel entitled "Materialisms in Victorian Literature and Culture"

This special session is devoted to assessing the presence and significance of material objects in Victorian literature and culture. Why are these objects placed in narratives? What significance do they carry for characters, reading audiences, authors. How do they help to tell a story?

Papers on literary theory on this approach to Victorian literature, or papers that apply this type of criticism to texts are all welcome!

Please send abstracts to Jean Arnold (jparnold@csusb.edu) byMarch 17.

PAMLA 2011 Conference: http://www.pamla.org/2011/

PAMLA: http://www.pamla.org/

Asa Briggs: A Celebration (3/1/2011; 5/19/2011)

Asa Briggs: A celebration

Institute of Historical Research

School of Advanced Study

University of London

Thursday 19^th May 2011 

Lord Briggs, one of the country’s most distinguished living historians, turns ninety this year. His remarkable contribution to academic history – to the development of Victorian studies, the history of communication and his role in the growth of modern universities – are considered and assessed in this one-day colloquium co-hosted by the IHR and the British Association for Victo­rian Studies. 

Confirmed participants:

Asa Briggs

David Cannadine (Princeton)

Francesca Carnevali (University of Birmingham)

Malcolm Chase (University of Leeds)

Matthew Cragoe (University of Sussex)

Martin Hewitt (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Frank Buongiorno (Menzies Centre for Australian Studies/King’s College London)

Sian Nicholas (Aberystwyth)

Jean Seaton (University of Westminster)

Robert Seatter (BBC)

James Thompson (Bristol)

David Vincent (Open University)

Registrations open on 1^st March 2011. More details at: www.history.ac.uk/asa-briggs 

Events Office

Institute of Historical Research

Senate House, Malet Street

London, WC1E 7HU

T: +44 (0)207 862 8756

E: IHR.Events@sas.ac.uk

CFP: NeMLA Women's and Gender Studies Session (4/22/2011; 3/15-18/2012)

Northeast Modern Language Association
2012 Annual Convention 
Rochester, NY
March 15-18

CALL FOR WOMEN’S & GENDER STUDIES SESSION PROPOSALS

NeMLA is a member-driven convention. We welcome and encourage session proposals (panel, roundtable, creative session, seminar) in all Women’s & Gender Studies topics, including:

• Susan B. Anthony Studies
• Eco-feminism
• Feminist Literary Theory 
• Gender in Literature
• Gender in Film/Photography
• Girl Studies/Boy Studies
• Globalized Gender
• Men’s Studies
• Motherhood
• Multi-ethnic Literatures
• Queer Studies
• Sexuality
• Transnational Literatures
• Women’s Studies & Authors
• Slavery
• Suffragettes 

Please help NeMLA extend the conversation in these areas. To propose and chair aWomen’s & Gender Studies’ session, submit a panel proposal online at by April 22 at: http://www.nemla.org/convention/2012/. Session proposals can also be cross-listed with the British area.

The full Call for Papers will be available online in June. The abstract deadline for most sessions will be September 30, 2011.  The convention will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Rochester, sponsored by St. John Fisher College.

Building upon the excellence of past NeMLA conferences, NeMLA continues to grow as a vibrant community of scholars, thanks to the wide array of intellectual and cultural opportunities at every venue. Compact yet diverse, Rochester also boasts important historical connections; it is the site of the home, publication operations, and orations of Frederick Douglass, where he edited the North Star, as well as his eponymous periodical, and delivered the speech, “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” Visitors can explore the houses of abolitionist, suffragette, and reformer Susan B. Anthony and the inventor of devices popularizing photography, George Eastman, as well as shopping and eateries; attendees will also be within reach of the beautiful Finger Lakes region, known for its local wineries.
 

CFP: Fabricating the Playful Body (4/30/2011; 11/3-6/2011)

The Midwest Modern Language Association
2011 Conference "Play . . . No, Seriously"
St. Louis, MO  November 3-6, 2011


Topic: Fabricating the Playful Body
The Fabricating the Body permanent section of the M/MLA is soliciting proposals for conference papers that analyze the playful body in literature and culture. In what ways does play fabricate the body (or not)? How does play theory and acts of play inform our understanding the body? We seek papers that analyze any genre or time period of literature.


The Chair invites entries from the Victorian period; however, this session is not specific to any time period


Please email a 500 word abstract by April, 30 2011 and CV to: Chair, Tracy J. R. Collins, Central Michigan University, colli1tj@cmich.edu 


M/MLA: http://luc.edu/mmla/index.html

CFP: KJV Conference (4/8/2011; 9/30-10/1/2011)

In the spring and fall semesters of 2011, Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, will host a series of events commemorating the 400th anniversary of the King James Version (1611) of the Bible. As part of that commemoration the university will host an interdisciplinary academic conference September 30-October 1, 2011. The conference will include plenary addresses, break-out paper sessions, roundtables, and a banquet. Our keynote speaker will be Dr. David Bebbington of the University of Stirling, Scotland.

Individual paper submissions from university faculty, independent scholars, and graduate students are welcome and may cover a wide range of topics related to the KJV. For individual submissions: Send name, one-page paper abstract, and short vitae.

Panel submissions (3 papers) are encouraged but not required.  For panel submissions send names of presenters, one page panel abstract, one page abstracts for each paper, and short vitas for each participant.  If you have someone in mind to comment and/or chair the panel, please send his/her name and affiliation with the submission.

Note: This is an academic conference with no interest in papers arguing for a "KJV only" agenda.

Victorianists will want to explore the influence and use of the King James Bible in Victorian literature and culture, but other possible topic suggestions include but are not limited to

• The creation of the King James Bible
• The history of the printing and dissemination of the King James Bible
• King James Bible and Protestantism
• Immediate and later reception of the King James Bible
• Political use of the King James Bible
• Cultural influence of the King James Bible
• King James Bible as Literature
• Influence of the King James Bible on Literature
• The influence of the King James Bible on other translations of the Bible
• King James Bible and Textual Criticism
• The King James Bible and the formation of American Culture

Send materials and inquiries to Dr. Brenda Ayres, bayres@liberty.edu by April 8, 2011.

CFP: MLA Proposed Special Session "The Cultural Place of Nineteenth-Century Poetry" (3/18/2011; 1/5-8/2012)

The Cultural Place of Nineteenth-Century Poetry
proposed special session for MLA 2011, Seattle

In a caustic 1869 Temple Bar review essay, the critic and poet Alfred Austin snubbed Tennyson by claiming that his most ambitious poetry would never endure except "in an academical sense only."  The barb raises an intriguing set of questions about the cultural place of poetry.  Nineteenth-century poets had huge readerships by today's standards, and Tennyson himself enjoyed a rock star-like celebrity.  Nowadays, by contrast, poets are quickly consigned to niche markets and associated with elite or academic settings.  And this holds true retrospectively, as well: even the most enduringly popular poets from the nineteenth century (Whitman, for instance, or Dickinson) owe a good deal to the academy for their ongoing cultural influence.  How, then, should our scholarship on historical poetics endeavor to theorize or otherwise to represent its salience in earlier cultures?  And how much should poetry's presently rarefied position matter to scholars of historical literature? 

Please send abstracts and short CVs by Friday, March 18, 2011 to Charles LaPorte: laporte@uw.edu.

Exhibition: The World of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: A Literary Celebrity of the 1830s (3/23/2011 - 5/27/2011)

The Grolier Club presents:

The World of LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON

A Literary Celebrity of the 1830s

Curated by F. J. Sypher

The exhibition "The World of Letitia Elizabeth Landon: A Literary Celebrity of  the 1830s" opens at the Grolier Club, in its second floor members gallery, 47 East 60th Street, New York, on Wednesday, March 23, 2011 and runs through Friday, May 27, with manuscripts, first editions, prints, photos, and other materials to illuminate the life and art of a leading British writer of the late Georgian and early Victorian period.
 
In her day, Letitia Landon was an international celebrity, whose works circulated throughout the British Isles, on the Continent, and in the United States. Writings by her were translated into French, German, and Dutch, and distributed from Paris to St. Petersburg. Her work was known by Poe, Whittier, Hawthorne, and many other prominent American authors. Renewed recognition of Landon's impressive achievement is long overdue.


Landon was born in London in 1802, and began publishing poetry at the age of 17 in an influential London periodical, The Literary Gazette. In 1824 her romantic narrative poem The Improvisatrice became a major best-seller. She also wrote reviews, articles, and stories for London journals, and contributed to popular literary annuals such as Forget Me Not, and The Keepsake. In 1831 Landon published her three-decker novel Romance and Reality, followed by successful historical novels, Francesca Carrara (1834), and Ethel Churchill (1837).

In June 1838 Landon married George Maclean, a colonial official, and sailed with him to Cape Coast, West Africa (in present-day Ghana), where she died suddenly at the age of 36. The official verdict was that she had taken an accidental overdose of medicine, but rumor attributed her death to suicide or murder. Other reports asserted that she had died from a heart attack brought on by the condition for which she was taking medication.

Landon's work remained in print into the 1890s, and in the 20th century she was remembered in a number of biographical studies. Her voluminous publications are now again in print, and she has attracted attention for her success as a young single woman carving out an independent career in the tough arena of literary London in the 1830s.

Landon's writing today exerts a powerful fascination in the vividness and musicality of her distinctive voice. Her typical themes are "Sorrow, Beauty, Love and Death." As suggested in the title of her best-known novel, she writes movingly of "romance," and incisively of "reality."

Location and time: The World of Letitia Elizabeth Landon will be on view at the Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York, from March 24 through May 27, 2011. The exhibit will be open to the public free of charge, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additional information and directions are available under the "Exhibitions" tab of the club's website, www.grolierclub.org.

Catalogue: An illustrated catalogue of The World of Letitia Elizabeth Landon by F. J. Sypher (price $25) will be available at the Grolier Club.

CFP: GP Johnston Prize in Scottish Book History and Bibliography (3/31/2011)

GP Johnston Prize in Scottish Book History and Bibliography


The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society sponsors the G.P. Johnston Prize in Scottish Book History and Bibliography. Named after the Edinburgh bookseller and bibliophile George P. Johnston, founder of the EBS and its secretary from 1890-1932, the essay prize is open to Graduate/Postgraduate students or scholars who have been awarded a Ph.D. within the three years prior to competition year.


Essays submitted for the annual competition can cover any period of book history or bibliographic interest, with the proviso that it includes a Scottish focus. It should be no more than 8,000 words and should not have been published previously. The winner will receive £200 and be published in the Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society.


Submissions should conform to the MHRA style guide <http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml>  and be submitted electronically to Dr. Joseph Marshall via email (joseph.marshall@ed.ac.uk) by 31 March 2011. Alternatively, hard copy accompanied by a CD with electronic version of the file can be sent c/o: Dr. Joseph Marshall, Rare Books Librarian, Special Collections, Edinburgh University Library, George Square, Edinburgh, Scotland EH8 9LJ.


Edinburgh Bibliographical Society: http://mcs.qmuc.ac.uk/EBS/Index.htm

Reminder: BAVS 2011 CFP "Composition and Decomposition" (3/31/2011; 9/1-3/2011)

Call for Papers: BAVS 2011, University of Birmingham

 Composition and Decomposition

The University of Birmingham will be hosting the 2011 BAVS Conference, 1–3 September  2011, on the Edgbaston campus.  We invite papers that deal with the conference theme of ‘Composition and Decomposition’ in all its various connotations.

This theme reflects Birmingham’s own nineteenth-century history as the ‘workshop the world.’  Birmingham is a city intimately connected with industry and manufacture.  However, one of its main exports in the nineteenth century was pens.  Our conference thus draws on the double of meaning of composition as both artistic practice and broader industrial process.  At a time when the country as a whole, and this city in particular, is reflecting upon the legacy of industrial decline, this conference also invites speakers to think about its inverse, decomposition.

We invite participants to engage with the theme widely and imaginatively.  Papers might be on the following:

●      Decadence, decay and degeneration

●      Formal composition or simply of what things are made

●      Putting things together, taking things apart

●      Waste and recycling; the return of discarded things.

●      Ingredients, inventories and other types of list

●      The role of composition in the practice of fine art, music, literature and drama.

●      Architecture and town planning

●      Scientific analysis and processes

●      The material culture of composition, whether draft manuscripts, laboratory equipment, or processes of manufacture

●      Industrialization, industrial processes, and industrial cultures

●      The importance of form and formal methodologies

●      Composition and the press; printing and print culture

●      The politics of deconstruction, whether as methodology or historical event (clearances, demolition etc.).

Please send proposals (500 words max) to bavs2011@googlemail.com no later than 31 March 2011.  Please direct any queries about the conference to the organizers at the above address.

Please note that the increasing popularity of BAVS as a conference where scholars of Victorian Studies share their research means that, unfortunately, not all offers of papers can be accepted.

The 2011 Conference hosts will select offers of papers according to the criteria of quality, engagement with the Conference theme, and with due regard to accepting papers from a spread of disciplinary areas, to support postgraduate research, and to fulfil BAVS’ commitment to interdisciplinarity.

Click here for more information: http://www.drama.bham.ac.uk/conferences/bavs/

CFP: Aesthetic Lives (5/1/11; 9/23-24/2011)

ESTHETISMES.ORG

AESTHETIC LIVES

‘[C]reating themselves out of themselves, and moulding themselves to what they were, and willed to be’

An international conference at the

University Paul-Valéry Montpellier, FRANCE
23-24 September 2011

Conference organizers :
Catherine Delyfer and Bénédicte Coste

In 1873, citing Hegel’s vision of the Greeks, Walter Pater wrote in The Renaissance: ‘They are great and free, and have grown up on the soil of their own individuality, creating themselves out of themselves, and moulding themselves to what they were, and willed to be.’ This Paterian celebration of autonomy and self-fashioning was read with delight, cultivated, and variously implemented by the actors of the Aesthetic Movement. Not only did Aestheticism create new objects, but it enabled singular lifestyles to be born. In the last third of the nineteenth century, the facts of existence ceased to be perceived as heteronomous. Life itself was gradually envisioned as a work in progress for an individual at once more aware of his/her freedom as subject and more conscious of changing societal constraints. New lifestyles flourished and novel representations of life emerged. From the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (which immediately preceded the Aesthetic Movement) to James Whistler, Oscar Wilde, William Morris, ‘Ouida’, ‘Michael Field’, and Edward Carpenter, many were those who devoted themselves to practicing and writing about literature and art while evolving a lifestyle which early twentieth-century critics would later identify with the ‘men [and women] of the nineties.’

Fashioning one’s own life became both conceivable and technically and politically possible as individuals gradually ceased to acquiesce in given social configurations of power and value and started interrogating the status quo. Such questioning was often the source of original individual choices and collective interventions such as the creation of clubs, guilds, presses or journals. Within given social, economic and political structures/strictures, of which writers and artists were highly conscious, ‘Aesthetic’ living became an important embodiment of subjective experience and individual experiment.

After our first trans-disciplinary international conference entitled ‘British Aestheticisms’, our 2011 conference on ‘Aesthetic Lives’ hopes to focus on issues of Aesthetic subjectivity, on the lived experience of Aesthetic individuality or difference, and on original trajectories in the context of Aesthetic practices. How did writers and artists turn their existence into an artwork? What does it mean to found a club, an artistic community, a new journal when one is (or claims to be) an Aesthete? What were the cultural, social, economic, religious or political constraints which hindered or enabled Aesthetic projects, aspirations, conversions and itineraries?

Importantly, the notion of ‘Aesthetic life’ is not meant in the limited biographical sense, but should be taken in the broad sense of a personal negotiation and a carving of one’s chosen itinerary or ethical choices in the context of Aestheticism. What kind of ethics can arise from Aesthetic choices? What are its daily manifestations, practically speaking? What were the obstacles or aporiae encountered by those who followed Pater’s ideas about self-fashioning and life as a work of art? How were these subjective choices received? And how do they anticipate the choices made by the figures of Modernism?

We welcome papers (in French or in English) studying individual artists and writers, specific formal or informal groups, and various arts of Aesthetic living. Descriptive and hagiographic approaches are to be strictly avoided. A selection of papers will be published. Please email your proposal byMay 1st to bncoste at free.fr AND Catherine.delyfer at univ-montp3.fr

Guest speakers

Dennis Denisoff

Chair and Professor, Department of English, Ryerson University, Toronto

Author of Aestheticism and Sexual Parody (1840-1940) (Cambridge UP, 2001) and Sexual Visuality from Literature to Film (1850-1950) (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)

Ana Parejo Vadillo

Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture, Birkbeck College, University of London

Author of Women Poets and Urban Aestheticism: Passengers of Modernity (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)

Conference fees : 55 euros (includes 2 lunches and coffee breaks)

Please log on http://www.esthetismes.org/ 

Reminder: Graduate Prize CFP - 2011 VanArsdel Prize (4/1/2011)

VanArsdel Essay Prize

Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2011 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. The winner will receive $300 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. Send paper submissions postmarked by 1 April 2011 to Kathryn Ledbetter, Department of English, 601 University Drive, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616. Please include a description of current status in graduate school.


For more information, click here: http://www.rs4vp.org/

Reminder: 16th Annual VISAWUS Conference CFP: "The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores" (3/15/2011, 10/13-15/2011)

CFP: 16th ANNUAL CONFERENCE of the VICTORIAN INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF THE WESTERN UNITED STATES (VISAWUS)
 
"The Vulgar and the Proper: Victorian Manners and Mores"
 
October 13-15, 2011 Houston, Tx
 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Helena Michie, English, Rice University, author, The Flesh Made Word: Female Figures and Women's Bodies; Sororophobia: Differences among Women in Literature and Culture; Victorian Honeymoons: Journeys to the Conjugal; co-author, Confinements: Fertility and Infertility in Contemporary Culture, and coeditor,19th-Century Geographies: The Transformation of Space from the Victorian Age to the American Century.
 
PLENARY SPEAKER: Lynn Voskuil, English, University of Houston, author, Acting Naturally: Victorian Theatricality and Authenticity, and essays in Victorian Studies, Feminist Studies, and ELH. Her current project is entitled "Horticulture and Imperialism: The Garden Spaces of the British Empire."

The 16th annual conference focuses on Victorian obsessions with vulgarity and propriety. We invite proposals on manners and mores in politics, culture, society, religion, art, science, economics, rural life, and other Victorian matters of decorum and propriety and what Victorians deemed vulgar, crude or crass. We encourage papers across all disciplines, including (but not restricted to) art history, literature, gender, history of science, history, material culture, political science, performance, life writings, journalism, photography, popular culture, and economics. 

• Possible topics (but not limited to these):
• Portraiture and self-fashioning Sexuality, sexology, repression
• The press and New Journalism
• Gender behavior and hierarchies
• Etiquette books
• Propriety in money matters
• Dress and clothing
• Domestic interiors and furnishing
• Dining and food consumption/preparation
• Religion and behavior
• Class and behavior
• Death and burial rites
• Sports and public athletic activities
• Imperial social hierarchies
• Racial behavior and hierarchies
• Genres: sensation novel, novel of manners, etc.
• The press for women, children, professionals
• Racy, ribald, risqué
• Institutional behavior and expectations
• Life Writings
• Photography: portraits, cartes-de-visite
• Political behavior
• Marriage and courtship
• Child-rearing
• Monuments
• Scientific debates and personalities
• Sages and other public figures
• Social performance of the self
• Theatricality and performance
• Decorum/manners and identities
• Scandals
• Perversion and subversion
• Gambling and racing
• The lowbrow and the popular

 
By March 15, 2011 email 300-word abstract and 1-page CV (name on BOTH) to: Laurel.Williamson@sjcd.edu. 
For further information on the conference, visit http://visawus.org/ 

CFP: Cosmopolitans at Home and Abroad: Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British and American literature. (4/11/2011)

Cosmopolitans at home and abroad: 
Cosmopolitanism in nineteenth-century British and American literature.

This proposed collection seeks essays addressing cosmopolitanism and the figure of the cosmopolitan in British and American literature from 1789 to 1914.

The idea of the global or universal citizen, as formulated in the context of late eighteenth-century Kantian philosophy, remains central to utopian ideas about world government and human rights. Relatedly, cosmopolitan ideals ostensibly aim to create international geopolitical relationships, in which national borders are eradicated, legal codes are harmonized and commercial and personal traffic is eased. As such, cosmopolitanism has become synonymous with the idea of a “world citizen” and the multicultural state.  Assumptions about the utopian nature of the cosmopolitan state, however, have been seen as troubling in the context of imperial and state power.  In this context, the figure of the cosmopolitan has often been represented as potentially threatening to local or regional traditions and collectives:  its seeming detachment from immediate geopolitical and social relationships and presumed lack of a personal connection to a place or a people made it a source of suspicion. 

The rapid cultural and economic expansion of the Anglo-American world over the long nineteenth century brought the tensions described by these competing definitions of cosmopolitanism to the fore with special urgency.  For this reason, its literary representation provides a site to consider issues such as the renegotiation of regional and global interests, the creation of new national and imperial identities, and the intersections between cultures both locally and internationally.  The recent turn to transnational, transatlantic and hemispheric studies offers the opportunity to explore these relationships issues from new perspectives.

Topics of interest might include but are not limited to: 
 

• Imperialism, expansionism and colonialism
• Technological advances and cultural exchange
• Transatlantic reform networks, lecture circuits and exhibitions
• Secret societies and conspiracy theories
• Economic, financial and corporate cosmopolitanism
• Representations of foreigners, travelers, tourists and expatriates
• National, racial, ethnic and class identities
• Geography, environment and nature
• Romantic nationalism and regionalism
• Authorial cosmopolitanism

Please send inquiries or proposals of approximately 500 words to James Hewitson atjhewitso@utk.edu or Yvonne Elizabeth Pelletier at ypelleti@utk.edu by Monday, April 11, 2011