<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div>Apologies for cross posting. I wanted to invite you to submit to the "Woolf and Illness" special topics issue of the <i>Virginia Woolf Miscellany</i>, and to announce that the deadline for submissions is now <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15 July 2016</span></span>. Please email me with any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Cheryl Hindrichs</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b>CFP <i>Virginia Woolf Miscellany</i><span style="color:black"></span></b></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="color:black">Issue #90, Fall 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="color:black">Special Topic: </span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="color:black">Woolf and Illness</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><b><span style="color:black">Submissions due: <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15 July 2016</span></span></span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;min-height:10px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:black">Virginia Woolf’s 1926 essay “On Being Ill” questions why illness has failed to feature as a prime theme of literature, alongside love, battle, and jealousy. This issue of VWM seeks contributions on Woolf’s exploration of illness in her life and work, as a paradigm for reexamining modernist literature and art, and its influence on subsequent writers. Topics might include questions such as: How does the literature of illness challenge or enhance theories of trauma, narrative ethics, and disability studies? How does Woolf’s focus on the politics and aesthetics of the ill body inform our understanding of the period, including in relation to Victorian values, in relation to the 1918-19 flu pandemic, and in relation to mechanized modernity’s drive toward professionalization and specialization? How has the contemporary literary landscape changed to contribute to the popularity of Woolf’s focus—from the success of the medical humanities to the proliferation of autopathographies? What might be inspiring or potentially problematic in Woolf’s theory of illness as a site for creative rebellion?</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"></span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;min-height:10px;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;color:black"> </span></p><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt 1.5pt;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial"><span style="color:black">Send submissions of no more than 2500 words by <span class="" tabindex="0"><span class="">15 July 2016</span></span> to: <br>Cheryl Hindrichs at <</span><b><u><span style="color:rgb(4,51,255)"><a href="mailto:cherylhindrichs@boisestate.edu" target="_blank">cherylhindrichs@boisestate.edu</a></span></u></b><span style="color:black">></span></p></div><div><span style="color:black"><br></span></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Department of English<br>Boise State University<br>1910 University Drive<br>Boise, ID 83725-1525<br><br>office: (208) 426-7072<br>home: (208) 345-1510<br><a href="mailto:cherylhindrichs@boisestate.edu" target="_blank">cherylhindrichs@boisestate.edu</a><br></div>
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