UPDATE: 19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; (dis)junctions, 4/6/07-4/7/07)

full name / name of organization: 
Nowell Marshall

UPDATE: deadline extended until 2/16/07

19th-Century British Masculinities (grad) (2/16/07; disjunctions,
4/6/07-4/7/07)

This call for papers is a proposed panel to be held at (dis)junctions, the
University of California, Riverside's 14th Annual Humanities Conference,
April 6-7, 2007. In keeping with this year's theme, "Malapropriation
Nation," this panel attempts to explore the various and often conflicting
configurations of British masculinity that appeared during the nineteenth
century. Papers from all historical and theoretical perspectives are
welcome.

Suggested topics in masculinity include

Civil humanism
Effeminacy
Consumption, lack, and excess
Gothic masculinity
Muscular Christianity
Alternative and/or 'debilitated' masculinity
The scholarly gentleman
The bachelor
Dandyism
Aestheticism
Medical masculinities (Krafft-Ebing, et al)
Imperial and/or colonial masculinities

Email abstracts of approximately 250 words to Nowell.Marshall_at_email.ucr.edu
before Feb. 16, 2007. All submissions will be acknowledged upon receipt.

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