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Crossing the boundaries
Writing by German-speaking women 1780-1918
A conference organised by the Department of Germanic Studies, together
with the Centres for Gender Studies in Europe and Nineteenth Century
Studies at the University of Sheffield, 19-21 April 2006.
Writing by women in the long nineteenth century has been described as a
permeable interface between the public and private spheres, between the
'apolitical' domestic realm and the politics of the wider world.
Women's impact on society (actual or potential) as writers, citizens,
wives and mothers was explored in fiction, periodicals, travel-
writing, letters and diaries. The organisers hope to explore not only
publications by women between 1780 and 1918, but also the conditions
under which they wrote and published, or encouraged others to do so.
Colleagues are invited to offer papers (in English or German) on the
following themes or related areas:
- Reflections on political events in the German-speaking world and in
Europe
- Models of female citizenship
- Attempts to negotiate social power
- Explorations of alternative models of femininity
- Reflections on the social and economic significance of marriage and
motherhood
- Salons, women's clubs and other cultural arenas
- Censorship, self-censorship, familial or social restrictions on
women's writing
- Getting into print: publishers and the literary marketplace
- Gender-stereotyping within literary genres
- Comparative studies with other Germanic and European literatures
Please send 400 word abstracts to the organisers:
Elisa Mueller-Adams ([log in to unmask])
and Caroline Bland ([log in to unmask])
Department of Germanic Studies,
University of Sheffield S10 2TN
by 30 June 2005.
Dr Caroline Bland
Germanic Studies
University of Sheffield.
Sheffield.
S10 2UJ (0114) 222 4592.
email: [log in to unmask]
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