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>Subject: CFP: Nineteenth-Century Domesticity (grad) (3/20/06; 5/5/06)
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>CALL FOR PAPERS
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>NINETEENTH-CENTURY DOMESTICITY
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>An interdisciplinary graduate student conference
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>Columbia University
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>Friday, 5 May 2006
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>Nineteenth-century Britain is generally associated with "the rise"
>of a
>number of  phenomena: the burgeoning of the middle classes, the
>growth
>of industrial capitalism, the rapid expansion of empire, the
>increased
>investment in nationalism (and cosmopolitanism), and the popular
>rhetoric of "separate spheres" for male and female activity.  But,
>at
>the same time, domesticity was experienced more widely and intensely
>by
>both genders than ever before: not only did the population of
>England
>and Wales double between the 1801 and 1851 censuses, but by 1861
>nearly
>one third of the population was under the age of 15.
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>We seek papers from graduate students in nineteenth-century studies
>(history, literature, anthropology, political science, women's
>studies,
>art history, etc.) that consider domesticity and domestic experience
>broadly construed-not only papers that address the nuclear family in
>Britain, but those that consider domestic arrangements of other
>kinds,
>both in the UK and globally during the nineteenth century.  We are
>particularly interested in papers that draw connections between some
>of
>the rising phenomena described above.
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>Possible topics might include, but are not limited to, the
>following:
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>-sympathy, sentimentality, and other domestic affections
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>-domestic anxieties and losses
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>-relations between parents and children: legal, emotional, social;
>family travel and leisure
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>-inter-generational households
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>-marital and other domestic partnerships
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>-domestic interiors at home and abroad
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>-national and class constructions of the family
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>-family values
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>-colonial domesticity
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>-domestic advice literature
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>-parental life writing
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>-separation, divorce, and child custody
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>-the overlapping or collision of public and domestic spheres: the
>private made public; government and charitable interventions
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>-illness, death, and mourning
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>-homes and homelessness
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>-domestic economy: household management and financial investments
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>-family health, nutrition, and medical practices
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>-childrearing practices: discipline and punishment
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>-professional domesticity: servants, nurses, governesses, tutors
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>-child education: moral, religious, physical, and intellectual
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>Two-page proposals (anonymously submitted) accompanied by cover
>sheet
>(containing name, affiliation, and contact information) via email,
>to
>[log in to unmask], due March 20.
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