NCFS 2007 Call for Papers

^High/_Low : Nineteenth-Century French Cultures

33rd Annual 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium
University of South Alabama

Mobile, Alabama
18-20 October 2007

The topic of this colloquium, "High/Low: Nineteenth-Century French Cultures," is broadly conceived to encourage contributions from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical perspectives. Contributions dealing with how the High and the Low enter into the literary discourse, visual rhetoric, political, social and personal realms of nineteenth-century France are particularly welcome.

Possible paper topics may include (but will not be limited to):

Canons and counter-canons

Popular literature

Children’s literature

Le roman feuilleton

Humor

Caricature and socio-political critique

Popular entertainments and/or “legitimate” theater

La Chanson

Popular and/or “official” cultural movements

Institutions and the beaux-arts

The Académies

Institutions and crime

Education and institutions in reform

Scandal and provocation

Commodification of the arts

Poetic innovations

Literary prizes

Popular appetites and/or haute cuisine

Photography

Documentation of high and low culture

Museums and archives

Anniversaries of note for 2007:

1807 Publication of Corinne

1857 Publication of Madame Bovary and Les Fleurs du mal

Death of Musset

Death of Eugene Sue

Death of Auguste Comte

1907 Death of Sully-Prudhomme

Death of Huysmans

Death of Alfred Jarry

Submissions for individual papers or sessions may be in French or English and should be in the form of an abstract (300-350 words) sent as an email attachment in Word (preferred) or by post. The deadline for all submissions is 15 March 2007.

Conference Email: NCFS2007@usouthal.edu

Conference Organizer: Susan McCready

Postal Address for Abstracts: 7925 Chicago Avenue, #203, Silver Spring, MD 20910

Telephone: 301 588 0957

Registration and Accommodation details will be posted in the spring of 2007.

Information on the Mobile, Alabama area is available at http://www.mobile.org