Kate Singer and Nanora Sweet seek proposals for papers to be given in the following open session planned for NASSR's 2015 meeting Aug. 13-16 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, We also welcome your queries about the session:
Hemans and Human Rights
I told him that I looked upon scales as particularly graceful things, and had great thoughts of having my picture taken with a pair in my hand. ~Hemans turns Wordsworth’s jibe from housekeeping to Justice.
While Felicia Hemans is often seen as the conserving mother and poet of duties, this panel will explore her as a dissident, justice-seeking woman whose concern for human rights in war and governance, in personal life and even death, gives her urgent poetry much of its strength and resilience. Possible topics include the rights of noncombatants, prisoners of war, veterans and their widows and orphans, political prisoners, and ethnic and religious minorities; the right to due process, to civic representation and national self-determination; a woman’s rights in marriage and her eligibility beyond that for power and honor; a right to happiness in childhood and adulthood, and to freedom from confiscation in life, and the right of sepulcher in death.
In calling for this session, we seek a variety of papers, for example those that establish the provenance of such rights in Hemans’s British setting and her post-revolutionary historical moment and that pursue questions like the following: What is Hemans’s own judicial thinking or political philosophy? How does Hemans theorize her judicial thinking or political philosophy? How are these inflected by gender, class, nation, or other notions of history? Further, what was her acquaintance with reformers or reformist thought and writing about rights? What is the role of Celtic interests in her portrayal of rights? Of national aspirations as in Greece and Switzerland and elsewhere? Of confessional, colonial, émigré, or indigenous positions? Of international liberalism emanating variously from Liverpool, Boston, Cadiz, Coppet? And what in her media of poetics and dramaturgy blazons human rights in a post-revolutionary era?
Please send paper proposals of up to 350 words (and any queries) by Dec. 31 to both Nan Sweet, University of Missouri-St. Louis, [log in to unmask] and Kate Singer, Mt. Holyoke College, [log in to unmask] For more on the conference see http://nassr2015.wordpress.com/
Nanora Sweet
Associate Professor Emerita
Department of English
University of Missouri-St. Louis
1 University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121
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7028 Dale Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63117
(H) 314-647-1925
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