Call for Papers for an Issue of Victorian Network on Victorian Bodies and Body Parts

Call for Papers for an Issue of Victorian Network on Victorian Bodies

and Body Parts

Victorian Network is an MLA-indexed online journal devoted to publishing

and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies.

The ninth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Professor Pamela

K. Gilbert (University of Florida), is dedicated to a reassessment of

the place of the human body in the Victorian literary and cultural

imagination. Rapid medical and scientific advances, advancing

industrialization and new forms of labour, legal reforms, the rise of

comparative ethnology and anthropology, the growth of consumer culture,

and the ever changing trends of Victorian fashion are just a few of the

many forces that transformed how Victorians thought about the human body

and about the relationship between the embodied, or disembodied, self

and the object world.

Nineteenth-century configurations of the body have long been of interest

to Victorian scholars. However, recent years have seen the field

reconfigured by the emergence of a range of exciting new and

theoretically sophisticated approaches that harness the insights of the

new materialism, thing theory, cultural phenomenology and actor-network

theory to explorations of Victorian embodiment, bodies and body parts.

We are inviting submissions of no more than 7000 words, on any aspect of

the theme. Possible topics include but are by no means limited to the

following:

· embodied experience and the senses

· the body in stillness and in motion: practices of confinement and

mobility

· consumerism, fashion and the stylized body

· the body and technology

· bodies of empire and colonialism

· bodies and body parts on display: anatomical museums, ethnological

shows, hospital ward tours

· sciences of the body: medicine, biology, ethnology, statistics, etc.

· bodies, sex and gender

· health and illness

· affective bodies and embodied emotions

· labour power and the body as property

· the poetics and aesthetics of the human body

· human and animal bodies before and after Darwin

All submissions should conform to MHRA style conventions and the

in-house submission guidelines.

Deadline for submissions: 30 November 2013.

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