{"id":2351,"date":"2011-10-20T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2011\/10\/20\/cfp-victorian-hesitations-indeterminacy-in-language-art-and-politics-11152011-528-312012\/"},"modified":"2011-10-20T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T14:26:00","slug":"cfp-victorian-hesitations-indeterminacy-in-language-art-and-politics-11152011-528-312012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2011\/10\/20\/cfp-victorian-hesitations-indeterminacy-in-language-art-and-politics-11152011-528-312012\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Victorian Hesitations: Indeterminacy in Language, Art, and Politics (11\/15\/2011; 5\/28-31\/2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Victorian Studies Association of Ontario\/ Assoc. of Canadian College and University Teachers of English - Joint Panel<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
Fiona Coll and Constance Crompton<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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Victorian Hesitations: Indeterminacy in Language, Art, and Politics<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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For knowing his way he is answerable, and therefore [the young artist] must not walk doubtingly \u2026 he may pause, but he must not hesitate. - <\/i><\/span>Ruskin, Modern Painters<\/u><\/span><\/div>\n
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Lord Hartington's conduct seems to give signs of hesitation. - <\/i><\/span>The Nation<\/u>, April 1886<\/span><\/div>\n
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The Victorian ethos is often understood to have been based upon action, expansion, and initiative. However, behind all the evidence of Victorian vim and vigour lie traces of equivocation, vacillation, and indecision. From the Crown's factual reluctance to make Cameroon a British protectorate to Lady Bracknell's fictional admonition against irresolution in The Importance of Being Earnest<\/i>, a concern with hesitation marks the prose and policy of the era. This panel invites papers that explore suspended moments in Victorian culture \u2013 moments when a delay, however long, was of real consequence. How <\/span>did the Victorians understand hesitation? How did they weigh the ethics of equivocation against the virtues of candor? How did their moments of uncertainty manifest themselves in movement? How was the difference between deliberation and doubt calibrated in this age of enterprise?<\/span><\/div>\n
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Papers may focus on, but need not be limited to:<\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n
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