PLEASURE
Call for papers.
The American Conference on Romanticism meeting
will be held at Indiana University at Bloomington, November 11-14, 1999.
Suitable topics for twenty-minute presentations include the following:
Esthetic pleasure: sublime, Gothic, grotesque, culinary or sartorial; art
for art's sake. Intellectual pleasure: wit, irony, parody, learning; the
varieties of love and eroticism; the passions, religion, enlightenment;
magic; publics and solitary readers, then and now - their tastes and
desires; tourism, guidebooks, dioramas; other romantic artifacts; means of
communication. Economic pleasure: Smith, capital and the industrial
revolution; romantic science. Political pleasure: Bentham, the pursuit of
happiness, revolution, abolitionism, war, utopias, nationhood and empire;
pain and suffering.
Half-page abstracts should be submitted by March 15, 1999 to:
John Isbell, Dept. of French and Italian
Ballantine Hall 642
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
(812) 855-1952, fax (812) 855-8877
Email: [log in to unmask]
Organizing committee: Fritz Breithaupt, Andrea Ciccarelli, Mary Favret,
Jane Fulcher, Ken Johnston, William Rasch, Henry Remak, Nick Williams.
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