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>From: "Brian David Glover" <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: CFP: The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century (9/15/06; ASECS, 
>5/22/07-5/25/07)
>
>American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
>38th Annual Meeting
>Atlanta, Georgia, 22-25 March, 2007
>
>The Ecocritical Eighteenth Century
>
>Though the concept of "nature" has been extensively
>explored by scholars of eighteenth-century literature,
>ecocriticism as a method and movement has been slow to
>enter the discussion. Yet as we become increasingly aware
>of the crucial inseparability of human culture from the
>non-human environment, the eighteenth century appears ever
>more important. Samuel Johnson proposed that "a blade of
>grass is always a blade of grass, whether in one country or
>another. Let us, if we do talk, talk about
>something; men and women are my subjects of inquiry." This
>seminar seeksto question that dichotomy, taking as its
>subject of inquiry the imaginative, epistemological, and
>physical relationships among men, women, and the rest of
>the world. While all approaches are welcome, I especially
>hope to hear from scholars who turn our attention from
>reflections on the sublime and the beautiful to novels,
>biographies, letters, and other forms that have not
>previously been recognized as "nature writing" but that
>investigate and embody everyday practices of living.
>
>SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 September 2006
>
>Contact:
>Brian Glover
>Dept. of English, University of Virginia
>219 Bryan Hall
>P.O. Box 400121
>Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121
>Tel. 434-979-7033
>bdg5n_(at)_virginia.edu
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