Paper proposals are sought for the following panel taking place at ASECS 2001.
Panel title: Sympathy in the World System
Sympathy has received attention in cultural history and literary criticism
primarily as a form of "fellow-feeling," that mode of extending sensibility
that was so well narrated and dramatized in eighteenth-century literature
and turned, through a confrontation of psychology with philosophy, into the
basis for a moral system of sociability. I invite papers which expand from
considerations of shared feelings to explore the ways eighteenth-century
culture attempted to grasp the world system: examinations of the
relationships between sympathy or 'hidden correspondences' and political
economy, the "economy of pity," sympathy and either local commercial
relations or exchanges between metropolitan cores and world peripheries, or
other ways to examine the materiality of passionate sociability are welcome.
Please send abstracts to Joel Reed, Dept. of English, 401 Hall of Languages,
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244-1170; queries to <[log in to unmask]>.
Deadline: Sept. 15, 2000
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