Call for proposals for an essay collection tentatively titled
Luddite Continuities.
Kevin Binfield and Adrian Randall invite proposals for
article-length contributions for a volume on Luddism. The collection will
focus on issues of continuity in Luddism, broadly construed. We hope that
a variety of disciplines (history, sociology, geography, law,
rhetoric, literature, political science and economics) will be represented
in the collection. Possible topics might include but are not limited to:
Continuity of previous or later social, political, religious,
customary, commercial, technological or community forms with Luddism
proper;
Luddism's geographical or demographical continuity;
Continuity of Luddite songs and poems with other songs and
poems, popular or otherwise;
Luddism's continuity with cotemporaneous movements (anti-slavery, early
feminism, agricultural labor movements);
Luddism's continuity with economic ideas of the time;
Luddism's continuity with later machine-breaking or techno-skeptic
movements;
Luddism's continuity with later or recent resistance to economic
oppression.
Please send detailed proposals of approximately 1000 words to
Kevin Binfield or Adrian Randall. Please also include, separately
from the proposal, a note indicating how the proposed article will fit
into the envisioned collection and into the body of existing scholarship.
The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2001.
Kevin Binfield
Department of English and Philosophy
Faculty Hall 7C
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky 42071 USA
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Adrian Randall
Department of Modern History
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
England
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