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"The Unconscious Master: Henry James and Jane Austen"
2006 ACCUTE CONFERENCE AT YORK UNIVERSITY, TORONTO

(27 May - 4 June 2006 at 75th Congress of Humanities and Social Sciences; the
ACCUTE conference will take place over 3-4 days within that timeframe)

Proposals are sought for a College English Association (CEA) panel
tentatively titled: "British Regions: Teaching 19th-Century British
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Call for Papers
Ruskinian Theatre: The Victorian Theatre and the Visual Arts (Lancaster
University, 13-15 July 2006)

Proposals are invited for papers and respondents for a 2 day colloquium
sponsored by the History Department and the Ruskin Programme at
Lancaster University, and the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts,
University of Birmingham.

Cambridge Scholars Press has contacted me and would like me to submit a book proposal on my proposed Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel titled "Popular Nineteenth-Century Women Writers and the Literary Marketplace." Though I can only accept four papers for the conference, I need about twelve to fifteen papers for the book. I would like to get the book proposal out before the end of this year; therefore, please note the deadline listed below. The focus of the book will be on the American marketplace and how women writers dealt with their editors ("gentlemen publishers"). In other words, how did the woman writer's relationship with the publisher influence or change her work?

We would like to announce a new peer-reviewed, online journal--Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies--and invite submissions for the inaugural issue.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality.

Call for Papers Proposals:

Northeast Modern Language Association
Philadelphia, PA
2 March to 5 March 2006

Panel Title: Victorian Cityscape Descriptions

        The 2006 NEMLA Victorian Cityscape Descriptions panel invites
abstracts of papers (250 words) that focus on descriptions of the
Victorian city written during the Victorian period. The descriptions
may be of actual or ficitional places, in poetry or prose: works of
science fiction are welcome. Presentations should address one or
more of the period's cultural issues: aesthetics, ethics,
exploration, psychology, religion, science, social and/or political
theory. E-mail abstracts preferred.

"The Machine and the Modern Subject"

Conference: The Northeast Modern Language Association (NEMLA) 2006 Conference
Deadline for submitting proposal: 9/15/05

NEMLA 2006 CONVENTION
Philadelphia,PA
March 2-5, 2006.
Panel: Nineteenth-Century British and American Attitudes Towards Slavery
CONTACT: jlee_at_fas.harvard.edu

I am seeking submissions to complete a volume on women, representation
and space in 19th and 20th century literature written in English. While
the main focus of the volume is women's metaphorical appropriation and
subvertion of public and private spaces since the beginning of the 19th
century until today, this call for papers in particular seeks essays on
contemporary women writers appropriating, negotiating and/or
deconstructing public/private spaces. I am especially interested in
essays that question the simplistic binary divide between public and
private spaces, and essays dealing with the trope of the flâneuse in the
postmodern city. Proposals on little explored authors such as Tama

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: SESSIONS, PANELS, PAPERS:

WORLD'S FAIRS & EXPOSITIONS

NATIONAL POPULAR CULTURE & AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATIONS

2006 JOINT CONFERENCE

April 12 – 15, 2006

Atlanta Marriott Marquis

For more information on the PCA/ACA, please go to http://www.h-net.org/~pcaaca.

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 15, 2005

We are considering proposals for sessions organized around a theme, special panels, and/or individual papers. Sessions are scheduled in 1½ hour slots, ideally with four papers or speakers per standard session.

Please forward this message as necessary:

The Victorian Studies Bulletin is beginning to collect information and copy
for the September 2005 issue on the following subjects:

 - Book/journal announcements
 - Brief reviews of past conferences/exhibits
 - CFP's
 - Grant/scholarship/fellowship opportunities and awards
 - News/information of interest to Victorianists (upcoming exhibits or
conferences, etc.)
 - Online resources of interest to Victorianists
 - Requests for information (research inquiries, etc.)

We are currently editing a special issue of _Victorian Poetry_, scheduled for publication in 2006, on Tractarian poetry and poetics and its influence on Victorian literature and religion. Due to the unavoidable withdrawal of one of our contributors, we are interested in hearing from anyone who has material on this topic which could be quickly turned into a high-quality article. The article (c.6000 words) would have to be completed by the end of July at the latest, and preferably earlier.

For further information or to express interest, please contact us at the email addresses below.

Dr Kirstie Blair
University of Glasgow
k.blair_at_englit.arts.gla.ac.uk

We're soliciting papers for a volume tentatively titled Literature and
the Addicted Subject, 1700-Present. This volume will examine how the
post-Romantic conception of literature constructs both the possibility
and our understanding of addiction. While there are collections and
books that discuss the addictions of authors or representations of
addiction, the focus of this book is substantially different: it seeks
to examine how addiction is a historical phenomenon that is enabled by
particular ideological and cultural preconditions. Thus, we do not
assume addiction's existence prima facie, and do not assume it is one
thing at all times. Addiction needs particular historical preconditions:

New deadline:

La Revue LISA - LISA e-journal
The Bible in the Nineteenth Century:
The Word and its Re-Wordings in British Literature and Thought

The Bible has played a significant part in British culture since the
Reformation. It has been a major reference not only in the field of
religious experience but also, more broadly, in artistic expression and
intellectual reflection. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the
Evangelical Revival placed the Scriptures at the heart of religious
practices and certain Romantics reasserted the importance of the Bible by
offering new readings.