{"id":8907,"date":"2019-11-23T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/?p=8907"},"modified":"2019-11-23T22:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T22:03:09","slug":"cfp-women-and-humour-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-1-12-2020-6-25-26-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/2019\/11\/23\/cfp-women-and-humour-in-the-long-nineteenth-century-1-12-2020-6-25-26-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"CFP: Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century (1\/12\/2020; 6\/25-26\/2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3805 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bavs-300x188.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bavs-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/bavs.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century<\/p>\n<p>British Association for Victorian Studies<\/p>\n<p>King\u2019s College London, UK<\/p>\n<p>June 25-26, 2020<\/p>\n<p>Wit is a prominent feature of nineteenth-century culture that encompasses genres from satire to nonsense. Well-known examples range from Dickens\u2019s humorous sketches to joke pages in magazines, and from political cartoons in the tradition of Cruikshank and Gillray to music hall routines. Women\u2019s participation in these discourses, however, still goes underacknowledged or even completely unrecognised. This re\ufb02ects on cultural attitudes of the present day as well as the nineteenth century. While feminist comedy is now a genre in its own right, the question \u2018Can women be funny?\u2019 is still regularly posed. In popular imagination of the nineteenth century, women are the subjects of humour rather than humourists themselves. The centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act brought back into the public eye many contemporary cartoons ridiculing the su\ufb00ragettes, and the strikingly similar earlier satires on the New Woman.<\/p>\n<p>This interdisciplinary conference is interested in women\u2019s active participation in humour and comedy in the long nineteenth century, as comic writers, artists, and performers. The organizers seek to address the reasons for the perceived absence of women from comic discourse, whether because their work was not recognised as humorous, because they issued it under male pseudonyms, or because they encountered resistance from a cultural establishment that regarded comedy as a male domain.<\/p>\n<p>Participants may want to address topics including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Satire<\/li>\n<li>Parody<\/li>\n<li>Nonsense and the absurd<\/li>\n<li>Humour and the New Woman<\/li>\n<li>The role of politics<\/li>\n<li>The periodical press, speci\ufb01cally women\u2019s magazines<\/li>\n<li>Women as subjects and objects in comedy<\/li>\n<li>Women, fashion and humour<\/li>\n<li>Humour and politics<\/li>\n<li>Women, profession, and satire<\/li>\n<li>Woman satirists<\/li>\n<li>Women, humour, and poetry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The organizers welcome papers on individual female humourists which may include, but are not limited to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sarah Green<\/li>\n<li>May Kendall<\/li>\n<li>Margaret Harkness<\/li>\n<li>George Egerton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please send 300 word abstracts to the conference email address (womenandhumour@gmail.com). If you are submitting a proposal for a panel, please include an abstract for each paper (up to 300 words each).<\/p>\n<p>Deadline for submissions: 12th January 2020<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century British Association for Victorian Studies King\u2019s College London, UK June 25-26, 2020 Wit is a prominent feature of nineteenth-century culture that encompasses genres from satire to nonsense. Well-known examples range from Dickens\u2019s humorous sketches to joke pages in magazines, and from political cartoons in the tradition of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5272,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[498],"tags":[1902,511,506,528],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907"}],"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\/5272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/navsa.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}