GERMAN II (1700-1933)
Gesundheit! Medicine in German Literature

This session welcomes paper proposals on any aspect of medicine in German literature in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Possible topics might include literary representations of physicians, patients, or diseases; narratives of illness or recovery; representations of medical technologies, remedies, or therapies; ancient and modern medical theories in literature; the construction of disease as metaphor; the pathologization of behaviors, groups, or individuals; literary and medical intertextuality; or writers and disease. Other topics dealing with medicine in literature are also welcome.

By May 1, 2009, please send one-page abstracts by email to ep75@msstate.edu or via post to Edward T. Potter, Department of Foreign Languages, Mississippi State University, P. O. Box FL, 300 Lee Hall, Mississippi State, MS 39762.

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