Call for Papers
Call For Papers
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This year's theme, "(Re)Collecting British Women
Writers," encourages interdisciplinary approaches to writers of
the 18th and 19th centuries, with a special interest in issues related to archival
scholarship and memory and how those issues manifest themselves in
collections, exhibitions, and canons. We encourage proposals focusing
on but not limited to:
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Influence and Textual Memory: |
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Collections and Archives: |
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- Colony and the empire
- Nation, nationality, and the body
- Life writing: journals and letters
- Travel narratives
- Gendered intertexualities
- Subjectivity, agency, and authorship
- Family as a microcosm or metaphor
- The politics of historical representation
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- Politics of display and archiving
- Textual and physical collections
- Intersections of written and visual arts
- Collecting in the (pseudo)sciences
- Exhibiting the empire
- The family: children's culture
- Collections and archives in the classroom
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(Re)envisioning the Canon: |
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- Recovering women's writing
- Intersections between canonical and non-canonical writers
- Intersections between male and female writers
- De-marginalizing and de-centering groups, texts, crafts
- Theatrical adaptations of canonical and non-canonical texts
- Women's access to words: female literacies and publishing
- Children's literature in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries
- Transatlantic links in children's culture
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