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***** CALL FOR PAPERS ******
On Saturday, May 6, 2000, Yale University will host a
graduate-student conference entitled "Literature and History in the Age of
European Revolution, 1789-1848." This one-day symposium aims to explore
such questions as: what is properly "literary" about historical writing,
and how does this literary quality affect the claims to truth that
historians make? How did the terms "literature" and "history" evolve from
their Englightenment to their Romantic forms? How can a situation of
extreme political duress (in the form of censorship, revolution, or
persecution) condition something as fundamental to cultural life as
creative writing? How did authors and other producers of discourse
represent the events of the day, both public and private (e.g., the French
Revolution, industrial growth, Waterloo, urban sprawl, women's rights,
Italian unification, family life, etc.)?
The symposium will be interdisciplinary in nature: we welcome
proposals from graduate students in the humanities, social sciences, and
any other field of potential interest. In addition to the subject of
Europe in the late-eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century, we also
welcome proposals that address the following:
(1) the theoretical relationship between literary and historical
writing, especially as it has developed in such movements as the new
historicism, New History, the "narrative" turn in contemporary historical
writing, cultural studies, deconstruction, new criticism, and other major
intellectual points of intersection (or diversion) between literary and
historical thought;
(2) pedagogical issues that implicate the relationship between
literature and history;
(3) areas of scholarly inquiry that are related to but not
restricted by the geographical and temporal borders of Europe, 1789-1848.
The effects of globalization were, of course, as deeply felt two hundred
years ago as they are today. We welcome, therefore, proposals that explore
how the relationship between literary and historical works in Europe
between 1789 and 1848 both responded to and were shaped by issues of a more
global nature, such as colonialization, international trade, slavery, the
importation and exportation of "European" culture, etc.
Papers will be 15 to 20 minutes in length. If you are interested
in participating, please email an abstract of c. 250 words, by April 10,
to:
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Please forward this email to any potentially interested parties and
direct any questions to the above email address -- thank you.
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