CFP: Women and Material Culture, 1660-1830 (09/30/03; 07/14-15/04)
This conference, jointly organised by Chawton House Library and the University
of Southampton English Department, will take place between the 14 and 15 July
2004. The event will be held at Chawton House Library, a centre for the study
of early English women’s writing, and former home to Jane Austen’s brother,
Edward Austen Knight.
The two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the relationship between
gender and the object world across the long eighteenth century. Over the last
two decades woman’s role as producer and consumer of goods has become a
leading issue in the cultural and social history of the period, as well as in
studies of literature, art and fashion. This body of work has collectively
pointed not only to woman’s increasingly central role to the burgeoning
consumer revolution, but to the complex ways in which the material world
mediated the construction of gender in the period.
The conference organisers invite proposals for papers or panels that examine
the intersection of gender and material production/ consumption in the lives
of real or fictional women during the period 1660-1830. Possible themes
include, but are by no means confined to, fashion; cosmetics; art; needlework;
gardening; furniture and furnishing; woman’s work; the book as material
object; the domestic household; shopping; advertising; women and collecting.
Abstracts for 20-minute papers should be no more than three hundred words in
length. We also welcome proposals for panels of three 20-minute papers that
focus on a particular topic. Abstracts and enquiries should be directed to Dr.
Jennie Batchelor at the conference email address: [log in to unmask]
Alternatively hard copies of proposals may be sent to Dr. Jennie Batchelor,
Department of English, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, SO17
1BJ, England.
Please note the deadline for proposals is 30 September 2003.
Dr. Jennie Batchelor
Chawton Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of English
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
023 8059 8386
http//:www.soton.ac.uk/~jeb
*********************************************************
British Association for Romantic
Studies
To advertise Romantic literature conferences, publications, jobs, or
other events that the BARS members would be interested in, please
contact Sharon Ruston <[log in to unmask]> or Fiona Price
<[log in to unmask]>.
Also use these addresses to register any change in your e-mail address, or to
be removed from the list.
Messages are held in archives, along with other information about the
Mailbase at: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/bars.html
*********************************************************
--
This mail sent through http://webmail.bangor.ac.uk
|