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CFP 2009 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies Conference, "The Pursuit of Happiness"
| Location: | New York, United States |
| Conference Date: | 2009-04-24 (Archive) |
| Date Submitted: |
2008-09-19 |
| Announcement ID: |
164094 |
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THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
Sponsored by Bard College and Skidmore College
at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
April 24-26, 2009
Following on the 2008 INCS theme, The Emergence of Human Rights, this conference will focus on the pursuit of happiness, that elusive corollary to life and liberty. What form did happiness and the comprehension of happiness take in the nineteenth century? How, for example, did the legacy of the American and French Revolutions shape
nineteenth-century understandings of happiness? What were the effects of burgeoning industrialism? In keeping with the recent turn to studies of emotion, feeling, and affect within literary studies as well as psychology, economics, history, and philosophy, we invite papers on the nineteenth-century contexts and genealogies for such work. And, in acknowledgment of our 2009 conference location. Saratoga Springs, NY, we particularly encourage papers exploring Victorian pleasure-seeking as having provided popular, if
contested, routes to happiness.
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