BEAUTY

IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

A Cross-disciplinary Conference at the University of Toronto

Hosted by the Nineteenth-Century Group

September 19th and 20th 1997

Keynote address to be given by W. David Shaw

Featured speaker: Mark Cheetham

Call for Papers

We invite abstracts for twenty minute papers on the topic of BEAUTY in the nineteenth century. We welcome papers in all disciplines including literature, music, art, philosophy, science, economics, and history. Possible topics include:

nineteenth-century aesthetics
the beautiful and the ugly
the art for art's sake movement
the interrelation between the arts
beauty and genre
beauty and gender
beauty and nationality
beauty and colonialism (race and empire)
the beauty industry (cosmetics, fashion, etc.)
beauty and childhood
beauty and the erotic
beauty and class
beauty and religion

Please send 300-500 word abstracts (three copies) postmarked no later than June 1st 1997 to:

BEAUTY Conference Committee

Graduate Department of English

University of Toronto

7 King's College Circle

Toronto, Ontario

M5S 1A1

Canada

Abstracts can also be e-mailed to Marc Plamondon at mplamond (at) chass.utoronto.ca.

For further information, contact:
Sarah Winters (swinters (at) chass.utoronto.ca)
Marc Plamondon (mplamond (at) chass.utoronto.ca)

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