Une pléthore partielle: Questions de la taille corporelle au cours du dix-huitième siècle

Call for Papers44th ASECS Annual MeetingCleveland, OHApril 4-7, 2013

A Partial Plethora : Matters of Body Size in the Long Eighteenth Century ‖ (Roundtable)

Katharine Kittredge, English Dept. Ithaca College, 953 Danby Road, Ithaca NY , 14850; Tel: (607)

222-2896; E-mail: kkittredge@ithaca.edu

In the fall of 1811, at age forty-three, Melesina Trench traveled to Cheltenham to take the waters ―in hope to reduce an unexpected Increase of Size‖ a month later, a noted physician had diagnosed her trouble as ―‘a partial plethora‘-- that it is good honest fat.‖ This roundtable will look at the way that body size was configured in the eighteenth century. I am especially interested in the depiction of larger women and men in written and visual media of the period, but will also consider papers that look at issues of stature, diets and other medical interventions, and the relationships between size, class, gender

and power.

Seminar Descriptions

Proposals for papers should be sent directly to the seminar chairs no later than 15 September 2012. Please include your telephone and fax numbers and e-mail address. You should also let the session chair know of any audio-visual needs and special scheduling requests. We actively encourage presentations by younger and untenured scholars. Seminar chairs are reminded that all papers received up to the deadline MUST be considered. Please do not announce that the panel is closed prior to the 15 September deadline. Chairs have until 30 September to send the names of participants, their e-mail addresses and the titles of their papers to the ASECS Business Office (asecs@wfu.edu) (Fax: 336-727-4697)

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