{"id":2537,"date":"2011-01-31T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/scitent.com\/2011\/01\/31\/cfp-vpfa-conference-sex-courtship-and-marriage-in-victorian-popular-culture-331-718-192011\/"},"modified":"2011-01-31T17:50:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:50:00","slug":"cfp-vpfa-conference-sex-courtship-and-marriage-in-victorian-popular-culture-331-718-192011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2011\/01\/31\/cfp-vpfa-conference-sex-courtship-and-marriage-in-victorian-popular-culture-331-718-192011\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: VPFA Conference: "Sex, Courtship, and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture" (3\/31; 7\/18-19\/2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Victorian Popular Fiction Association<\/b>
3rd Annual Conference<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

18th & 19th July 2011
Institute for English Studies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
University of London<\/span><\/div>\n

Theme:<\/b> Sex, Courtship, and Marriage in Victorian Popular Culture<\/span><\/p>\n

Keynote speakers: <\/b>Andrew King (Canterbury Christ Church University) <\/span>and Jennifer Phegley (University of Missouri-Kansas City)<\/span><\/p>\n

After our very successful conferences of 2009 and 2010 the Victorian <\/span>Popular Fiction Association announces its third annual conference to <\/span>be held 18th \u2013 19th July 2011.<\/span><\/p>\n

The themes we would like to develop are ideas of sex, courtship, and <\/span>marriage, and the ways in which they are explored and represented in <\/span>Victorian popular culture. This theme enables us to develop our <\/span>interdisciplinary interests in nineteenth-century culture, and our <\/span>understanding of the many and varied attitudes towards relationships <\/span>throughout the Victorian period.<\/span><\/p>\n

We are pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Jennifer <\/span>Phegley and Andrew King, both of whom will be addressing aspects of <\/span>the conference theme.<\/span><\/p>\n

Papers relevant to the conference theme may be drawn from any aspect <\/span>of Victorian popular culture and may address literal or metaphorical <\/span>representations of the theme.<\/span><\/p>\n

We remain committed to promoting research in any aspect of Victorian <\/span>popular fiction, and the revival of interest in understudied male and <\/span>female popular writers from this period will again be pivotal to this <\/span>conference, as we look to build on the foundations we established at <\/span>our conferences in 2009 and 2010. We invite proposals for 20-minute <\/span>research papers on any aspect of the above theme. Topics might <\/span>include, but are not restricted to:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Sex and marriage in the periodical press<\/span>
\u2022 The circulating libraries and their attitude to sex and marriage in <\/span>Victorian fiction<\/span>
\u2022 Sex and marriage on the Victorian stage<\/span>
\u2022 Social codes governing courtship<\/span>
\u2022 Courtship protocol and etiquette<\/span>
\u2022 Physical relationships and intimacy<\/span>
\u2022 Sex, marriage, and emigration<\/span>
\u2022 Taboos related to sex, courtship, or marriage<\/span>
\u2022 Sex, marriage, and death<\/span>
\u2022 Medical attitudes towards sex and marriage<\/span>
\u2022 Unconventional or transgressive relationships<\/span>
\u2022 Marital harmony and the professional man or woman<\/span>
\u2022 Representations of divorce, separation or the legal position of <\/span>married women in popular culture.<\/span><\/p>\n

Postgraduate students are particularly welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n

Please send abstracts of no more than 200 words to either Jane Jordan <\/span>(<\/span>j.jordan@kingston.ac.uk<\/a>) or Greta Depledge (<\/span>depledgeg@aol.com<\/a>) by <\/span>Thursday <\/span>31st March 2011<\/b>.<\/span><\/p>\n

For further information about the Victorian Popular Fiction Association, see: <\/span>http:\/\/fass.kingston.ac.uk\/research\/victorian\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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