{"id":1851,"date":"2009-07-19T13:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T11:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.univie.ac.at\/Geschichte\/salon21\/?p=1851"},"modified":"2022-05-19T16:18:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T16:18:46","slug":"cfp-neo-victorian-families-gender-sexual-and-cultural-politics-publication-dl-31102009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/?p=1851","title":{"rendered":"CfP: Neo-Victorian Families: Gender, Sexual and Cultural Politics (Publication); DL: 31.10.2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We invite contributions on neo-Victorian representations of the  nineteenth-century family for the second volume in a newly  commissioned 6-volume series on Neo-Victorian Studies, to be published by Rodopi in early 2011. Proposals by <strong>31st October  2009<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Nineteenth-century nuclear and extended families acted as the enabling fulcrum and dissemination point of  capitalist values, imperial ideals, attitudes towards class and race, and sexual and gender politics, inculcating and reproducing cultural  ideologies. Hence, many neo-Victorian writers and filmmakers position  the family as central to their critical revisions of the period and  its socio-political legacies in the present day. <\/p>\n<p>This volume aims to  interrogate neo-Victorian strategic interventions in the nineteenth-century discourse of family and how these implicitly or explicitly engage with latter day issues, e.g. with regards to family breakdown, child abuse, divorce law and so forth. Possible topics include (but are not limited to):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">the family at home and abroad<\/span><\/li>\n<li>parent-child and sibling relations<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">ideal communities: alternative, adoptive, self-chosen, and  \u2018improper\u2019 families<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">family traumas: divorce, sickness, death, emigration, domestic  violence, and\/or sexual abuse<\/span><\/li>\n<li>the familial neo-Victorian Gothic<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">family politics of ethnicity, race, and eugenics<\/span><\/li>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">mothering: good\/bad mothers, single\/deserted mothers, working mothers<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">crime and familicide: infanticide, stolen children, baby-farming, child criminals\/murderers<\/span><\/li>\n<li>genealogy, inheritance, and family memory<\/li>\n<li>family, nation and empire<\/li>\n<li><span lang=\"EN-GB\">19th-century legacies in 20th\/21st-century social policy and family  law<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"bodytext\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">Please send 300 word proposals for 8,000-10,000 word chapters to the  series editors Dr. Marie-Luise Kohlke and Prof. Christian Gutleben by <strong>31st October  2009<\/strong>. Completed chapters will be due by 30 June 2010.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact<\/strong><br \/>\nDr. Marie-Luise Kohlke: m.l.kohlke#swansea.ac.uk<br \/>\nProf. Christian Gutleben: christian.gutleben#unice.fr <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We invite contributions on neo-Victorian representations of the nineteenth-century family for the second volume in a newly commissioned 6-volume series on Neo-Victorian Studies, to be published by Rodopi in early 2011. Proposals by 31st October 2009. Nineteenth-century nuclear and extended families acted as the enabling fulcrum and dissemination point of capitalist values, imperial ideals, attitudes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62219,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1851\/revisions\/62219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salon21.univie.ac.at\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}