From: Rossforman-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:33:45 EST
Subject: CFP:  Eating and Empire in the Victorian Period (3/1/02, MLA '02)


Eating and Empire in the Victorian Period
Proposed Special Session
Modern Language Association, New York City
December 27-30, 2002

Contributions are sought for a proposed special session on “Eating and Empire 
in the Victorian Period” for MLA 2002, 27-30 December, New York.

Paper topics might include:

-- the development of the restaurant and specifically of the “foreign” 
eating house
-- trade in imperial foodstuffs, such as tea, coffee, and spices
-- imperial notions of diet and health
--the representation of food from imperial locations at imperial or 
international exhibitions
--curry
--cookbooks
--travel narratives about food, diet, eating, and restaurants
--cannibalism and narratives of foreign ingestion
--literature about aphrodisiacs


Contributions offering a comparative angle on food and empire in French, 
German, Dutch, Portuguese, or Spanish texts are also welcome.


Please send one-page abstracts  (or completed papers) and a short CV by March 
1, 2002 to

Ross Forman 
AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures at UCL and SOAS
Room 399a
School of Oriental and African Studies
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG

Email:  rf19-AT-soas.ac.uk or Rossforman-AT-aol.com
Fax:  +44 (0) 20 7898 4239
Tel:  +44 (0) 20 7898 4268


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