Edith Wharton Panel

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on Edith Wharton. These
papers can examine any aspect of Wharton scholarship.

Potential topics may include, but are not limited to:
A close focus on her novels
Wharton’s life/biographies of the writer
A look at critical texts on the writer
Gender performance in Wharton’s novels
Wharton and social class
Wharton and the literary canon

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

Science and Literature in the 19th century

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the interaction
between scientific writing and literature in the 19th century. How did
scientific discoveries, theories and assumptions (for example, in medicine
and psychology, but not limited to these) influence contemporaneous fiction?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

Science and Literature in the 19th century

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the interaction
between scientific writing and literature in the 19th century. How did
scientific discoveries, theories and assumptions (for example, in medicine
and psychology, but not limited to these) influence contemporaneous fiction?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

War Literature of the 20th Century

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on war literature written
during the 20th century which examine the role of authors, poets, or
journalists in challenging the myths of war. How do their works’
portrayals of war challenge popular (mis)conceptions about war, and to what
effect?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

Science and Literature in the 19th century

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on the interaction
between scientific writing and literature in the 19th century. How did
scientific discoveries, theories and assumptions (for example, in medicine
and psychology, but not limited to these) influence contemporaneous fiction?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

Gender and Sexuality in Gothic Literature

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on definitions of
masculinity and femininity in Gothic literature. How is the Gothic used to
subvert societal notions of gender and sexuality? What does the Gothic
tell us about gender roles and sexual ideology in the period in which these
works were written?

Abstracts of 250-300 words should be emailed to ghoff002_at_ucr.edu by
February 15, 2008.

Contributors are invited to submit critical works on how landscapes and
alternative planes (waterscapes, moonscapes) are constructed, impacted,
and impact. How have new technologies influenced and changed how
terrains and landscapes are viewed? What sort of impact do changing
terrains have on inhabitants emotionally, culturally, racially, sexually,
and theoretically?
 
Potential Topics Include:
terrain construction development and impact
terrain and memoir
terrain and community
literary landscapes and environments
landscapes and cultural conventions.
terrain and psychological trauma
terrain and sexual, gender, ethnic, and racial borders