High/Low: Nineteenth-Century French Cultures

33rd Annual Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium

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
Commodificatin 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