I welcome proposals for papers for a special session at NASSR 2002
(Aug 22--Aug 25) on
*************"Jane Austen on/in/as Popular History"*****************
As recent work has reminded us (See Lynch and Johnson, for example),
Austen's relation to history is a particularly contested one. She not only
comments on the history of her own time, but has become an especially
significant figure in the histories that others have subsequently
written--of Englishness, of manners, of gender, of the rise of the novel,
and so forth. Everyone, it seems, wants Jane Austen to be part of the
history that they write, or at least want to believe in.
******** Please send proposals by 1/15/02 on such topics as ********
*Austen and the popular: fiction, film, etc.
*Austen studies and/or Austen as a historical phenomenon
*Austen Study Centers and electronic discussion lists
*JASNA contributions to Austen Studies
*Austen's seemingly boundless popularity (especially among conflicting
groups. i.e why we love Jane Austen)
*The history of Jane Austen Studies
*The Janeites
*Non-normative readings of Austen
*Austen and literary criticism
*Tensions between Austen as serious novelist and popular icon.
*Other ideas related to this topic are also welcome.
--The conference will run from 9 a.m. on Thursday, August 22, through to
approximately 1 p.m. on Sunday, August 25.
--Information about the conference, including registration, housing, travel
and ground transportation information, will be posted on the conference web
site:
<http://publish.uwo.ca/~nassr> .
--Deadline for submissions is January 15, 2002
--Send 500-word proposals to Jill Heydt-Stevenson, Department of English,
226 UCB, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309 or to
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Jill Heydt-Stevenson
Assistant Professor
Department of English
Department of Comparative Literature
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309
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