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The following Call for Essay Proposals went out to C-18L on 6 August:

Women of Fashion: Popular Culture in the Eighteenth Century and the Eighteenth Century in Popular Culture, Edited by Tiffany Potter (University of British Columbia)

Proposals are invited for an edited collection of original essays that examine women’s popular culture in eighteenth-century England and representations of eighteenth-century England in modern popular culture. The volume will be published by the University of Toronto Press in 2011.

Women of Fashion will have three sections:
1) women and eighteenth-century arts (theatre, literature, music, painting)
2) women and eighteenth-century life (fashion, games, courtship, weddings, politics)
3) modern engagements of eighteenth-century women’s culture (in films, historical fiction, art exhibits, web communities, fan groups).

Please send a 500-word abstract or completed essay (4,000-6,000 words), plus a brief biographical statement (or c.v.), as e-mail attachments (in Word or RTF) to Tiffany Potter (tpotter@interchange.ubc.ca). The deadline for abstract submission is 28 August 2009.

Proposals are invited for any of these three sections. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to
• ideas of women and popular culture in particular works of literature, painting, or music
• women in theatre management, in performance, and in theatre audiences
• women writers, musicians, and artists as parts of women’s popular culture.
• courtship and weddings
• games and gambling
• public life and politics
• gossip and scandal
• economic implications of women’s popular culture
• modern historical fiction, art exhibitions and the like
• social communities (online communities, Janeites)
• modern revisions of eighteenth-century theatre and fiction (from the Jane Austen film subgenre to books like The Jane Austen Book Club and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, but also other possibilities like Neil LaBute’s rewrite of Restoration comedy, Among Men, and the recent film on The Duchess of Devonshire, for example)

If your proposal is chosen for consideration, you will have until 28 February 2010 for final submission of your chapter.

Dr. Tiffany Potter
Department of English
University of British Columbia
tpotter@interchange.ubc.ca