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From: "Alan Corkhill" <[log in to unmask]>
Reminder Call for a Special Theme Issue of
Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies
"Reading Female Happiness in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German
Literature: Texts and Contexts"
Guest Editors:
Alan Corkhill (The University of Queensland, Australia) and
Katharina von Hammerstein (University of Connecticut, USA)
Submissions are sought for a special theme issue of Seminar focussing
on representations of female happiness in German fiction, drama,
poetry, and autobiographical writings from the Enlightenment to the Fin
de Siècle. The aim of this collection of essays is to contribute to a
cultural and intellectual history of happiness and add fresh
perspectives to the existing body of literary scholarship on German-
speaking authors and their work during the period under review.
Contributions are particularly welcome that address one or more of the
following topics:
- the extent to which historical and current philosophical/theological,
sociological, political/ideological, and pedagogical theories/models of
female happiness are reflected in literary texts;
- the role of happiness in constructions of femininity; happiness and
sexual politics; happiness and women´s education and/or profession;
- the particular emphasis given to issues of female happiness and well-
being (e.g., domestic/conjugal `bliss´ and philanthropy) in the popular
subgenres Frauenroman and Eheroman;
- the female creative process as self-fulfilment and/or a catalyst for
self-determination.
Additional topics on happiness discourse and various theoretical
approaches will be taken into consideration.
Contributors might wish to consider whether there is such a thing as
gendered felicity, and, if so, how male/female happiness is variously
defined, differentiated, and culturally mediated by writers of both
sexes.
The Editors ask that manuscripts not exceed 6000 words including Works
Cited.
They may be submitted in German or English and must conform to the
Seminar guidelines (www.humanities.ualberta.ca/Seminar/submissions.htm
or consult the Editor: [log in to unmask]).
Enquiries should be directed to the Guest Editors, Alan Corkhill (The
University of Queensland; [log in to unmask]) and/or Katharina von
Hammerstein (University of Connecticut; [log in to unmask]).
Submission due date: December 1, 2009.
Earlier submissions are welcome.
Associate Professor Alan Corkhill
Reader in German Studies and German Program Coordinator
School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies
The University of Queensland
Brisbane
AUSTRALIA 4072
Phone: +61 7 3365 2270
Fax: +61 7 3365 6799
Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/profiles/corkhill.html
School's website:
http://www.arts.uq.edu.au/slccs/
