Greetings to one and all

Is this of interest?  Apologies if you know of it already.  The canvas is
wide, and would seem to have opportunities for everyone.

It would seem to have potential for library and book historians as well as
area and other studies.

Best wishes for the coming Festive Season,

Peter

Peter B Freshwater MA MCLIP FSAScot
43 Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh EH12 5QQ, Scotland
Telephone 0044 (0)131 337 7049
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Subject: FW: Call for Papers: Masculinity and Empire


> From: Stephen Gregg <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Nov 23, 2007 11:58 AM
> Subject: masculinity and empire
> To: [log in to unmask]
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>
> Masculinities, Empire and Cultural Difference:
> literature and culture, 1660-1830
> Editor, Stephen H. Gregg
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> Summary
> This will be an edited collection of critical essays. Concentrating
> on the period c.1660-c.1830, it concerns the representation and
> constructions of masculinity and how it interacts with cultural
> difference and the project of empire in England/Britain or in
> English/British areas of global interests.
>
> Rationale
> Masculinities, Empire and Cultural Difference will be a timely
> intervention in the expanding, but still relatively new, area of
> study of literature, cultural history and masculinity. It has often
> been a critical given that the ethos of empire and colonialism is
> masculinist, yet as regards the eighteenth-century this assumption
> has largely been left unexamined (with a handful of exceptions).
> Arguably, such assumptions only help mythologize certain ideologies
> of manliness and masculinity.
>
> While 'masculinity' is an important analytical  category, it is one
> that should encompass a critically diverse range of male behaviours
> and roles, both normative and marginalised. 'Masculinities',
> therefore, has been adopted as a general critical category that
> manages to encompass diverse discourses and models of what were, more
> precisely, manlinesses and effeminacies. Indeed, the methodological
> approach of the collection will not just examine this important dyad,
> but will also emphasise the differences between men. As John Tosh has
> argued, masculinity 'makes socially crippling distinctions not only
> between men and women, but between different categories of men -
> distinctions which have to be maintained by force, as well as
> validated through cultural means' (Tosh, 1994). Such differences and
> marginalisations can be seen in representations of men as refracted
> through, for example, the perception of the effects of empire or
> encounters with cultural difference. Similarly, while conceptual
> models such as civic humanism, politeness and sensibility have
> provided  useful ways of elucidating the shapes and forms of
> eighteenth-century masculinities, the interaction between these
> discourses, critical models of human difference and the 'cultures of
> empire' (Catherine Hall, 2000) is a matter of urgent critical
> attention.
>
> Outline
> It is envisaged that the collection may range across (but is not
> limited to) the following topics: colonial spaces; women, men and
> sex; Black Atlantic voices; literary discourses of empire and gender;
> cultural difference in the contact zone; difference and empire at
> 'home'; homoeroticism and male friendship; slaves, slavers and the
> slave trade; representations / discourses of landscape. One of this
> collection's strength lies in its interdisciplinary nature, and
> contributions will be sought not only from literature and history,
> but also those working across the disciplinary boundaries of
> literature, history, the arts, and cultural studies. It is also
> envisaged that the collection will touch upon all the multiform
> geo-political spaces of British interest in this period, including,
> of course, Britain itself.
>
> Submission
> The deadline for submitting a proposal is Friday March 21st 2008.
> Essays will be around 6,000 words.
>
> Send by email to: [log in to unmask]
>
> Or by post to:
>
> Dr Stephen H. Gregg
> School of English and Creative Studies
> Bath Spa University
> Newton St Loe
> Bath
> BA2 9BN
> UK