{"id":2682,"date":"2014-05-21T13:14:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2014-05-21T13:14:32","modified_gmt":"2014-05-21T13:14:32","slug":"cfp-mmla-the-city-and-the-aesthetic-5312014-1113-162014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2014\/05\/21\/cfp-mmla-the-city-and-the-aesthetic-5312014-1113-162014\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: MMLA &#8220;The City and the Aesthetic&#8221; (5\/31\/2014; 11\/13-16\/2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Detroit-Skyline-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2683 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Detroit-Skyline-20-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Detroit Skyline 20\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Detroit-Skyline-20-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Detroit-Skyline-20.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>MMLA 2014<br \/>\nDetroit, Michigan<br \/>\nNovember 13-16, 2014<br \/>\nDeadline: May 31, 2014<\/div>\n<div>CFP for English II: English Literature 1800-1900<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThe City and the Aesthetic\u201d<br \/>\nFrom William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cUpon Westminster Bridge\u201d to William Morris\u2019s horror at modern cityscapes, from the craze for Aesthetic housewares to debates over working-class access to art museums, the nineteenth-century city presented both aesthetic problems and aesthetic opportunities. How did urbanization transform both the aesthetic experiences that were available and the categories through which these experiences were understood? Implicit in this question is a recognition that the city may provide an especially fertile ground for exploring negative aesthetic reactions like distaste or disgust, which remain comparatively under-theorized.<\/div>\n<div>Papers that approach \u201cThe City and the Aesthetic\u201d through the lens of perception, affect, or pleasure are welcome, as are papers that connect aesthetics to politics, consumption, or class.Send abstracts to Julia Bninski (jlbninski@gmail.com) by May 31, 2014. Abstracts should be approximately 250-500 words. Please provide the following information: your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and paper title.<\/div>\n<div>For more information visit http:\/\/www.luc.edu\/mmla\/index.html<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MMLA 2014 Detroit, Michigan November 13-16, 2014 Deadline: May 31, 2014 CFP for English II: English Literature 1800-1900 \u201cThe City and the Aesthetic\u201d From William Wordsworth\u2019s \u201cUpon Westminster Bridge\u201d to William Morris\u2019s horror at modern cityscapes, from the craze for Aesthetic housewares to debates over working-class access to art museums, the nineteenth-century city presented both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5033,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498,1],"tags":[506,613,572],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5033"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}