CALL FOR PAPERS
SCENES OF THE APPLE:
HUNGER
AND APPETITE AS METAPHOR IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S
WRITING
Tamar Heller and Patricia Moran invite submissions
for a volume of essays tentatively entitled SCENES OF THE APPLE: HUNGER
AND APPETITE AS METAPHOR IN NINETEENTH- AND TWENTIETH-CENTURY WOMEN'S
WRITING. We are interested in essays that address the rich symbolic and
cultural meanings surrounding hunger and appetite in the work of nineteenth
and twentieth-century women writers. Contributors can examine a variety of
genres and an international (rather than solely a British or North American)
context. Issues of particular interest include: how food provides a
figurative vocabulary for a range of themes, such as sexuality and creativity,
in women's writing; how women's writing of the last few centuries reflects
historical changes in women's attitudes toward their bodies (here essays
that examine eating disorders or the evolution of the Victorian figure of
the hysterical woman into the anorectic would be particularly useful); how
representations of family and maternity in women's literature are linked to
images of hunger and eating; how types of difference (ethnic, racial,
class, sexual preference) affect the symbolic resonance of food in
women's writing. Manuscripts conforming to the MLA STYLE MANUAL and
consisting of 15-20 typed, double-spaced pages should be postmarked
by 15 April 1996. Send papers (and also direct proposals and
inquiries) to Tamar Heller, Department of English, Bingham Humanities
Building, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY 40292 (e-mail
address wthell01@ulkyvm.edu or wthell01@homer.louisville.edu--either
will work), or to Patricia Moran, Department of English, University
of California, Davis, CA 95616.
Tamar Heller
wthell01@ulkyvm.edu
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292