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Forwarded by Malcolm Rutherford.
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CALL FOR PAPERS
Victorians Institute 1996
University of Virginia
18-19 October 1996
WHEN MONEY TALKED (AND HOW): VICTORIAN NEGOTIATIONS
Proposals are invited for conference papers on money in Victorian history,
literature, and culture: its substance and theory, omnipresence and
invisibility, glamour and filth. Our featured speaker will be
Christopher Herbert of Northwestern University.
Panels will be arranged upon acceptance of papers, but a list of likely themes
includes
-Living off the interest: capital growth and the Victorian plot
-The many faces of money: numismatics, forgery, the sovereign and the note
-Getting and spending: the economics of eros
-Speculative bonds: stock-taking, stake-holding, responsibility & the cash
nexus
-Poetry appreciation: the rare-book as gift, commodity, and investment
-Pricelessness: fungible solvency versus absolute value
-Hard cash, soft money, and the strength of representations
-Credit/credo, debt/doubt, and the circulation of trust
-Coinage and neologism: the minting of Victorian English
-Home economics: from pin money to household accounts
-Monetary science: the gold standard on and off
-Miser, blackmailer, bankrupt; embezzler, beggar, thief: pathologies of money
Proposals on additional topics will be welcome, especially if they bring what
might otherwise be a broadly *economic* issue into specifically *monetary*
focus. The Victorians Institute is one of the best membership bargains in
academia; nevertheless, conference participation and registration are open not
just to card-carrying members but to all who take an interest in the subject.
Proposals: 1-2 pages
Presentations: 15-20 minutes
Deadline for proposals: 15 May 1996
Address: Herbert Tucker
Department of English
Bryan Hall 219
University of Virginia
Charlottesville VA 22903
tucker@virginia.edu
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