Queer(ing) Kinship in the Nineteenth Century

This is a call for papers for a Special Session panel that is being proposed for MLA 2017 in Philadelphia, PA (January 5-8, 2017). How do Romantic and Victorian writers imagine alternative social networks and queer affective relations? Please send a 300-word abstract plus CV to sdraucke@bu.edu and tmvcroan@bu.edu by March 20, 2016.