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We encourage a broad,
interdisciplinary interpretation of the title, and invite considerations that
can include, but are not limited to, Victorian conceptions of:
Aestheticism • The Body and the
Soul •Virtue • Sinfulness • Artifice • Cosmetics & Fashion • Literary Form
• Utility • Gender, including Effeminacy, Androgyny & Stereotyping •
Eroticism • Morality • Religion • Eugenics • Exoticism • Ekphrasis,
or physical response to visual stimuli • The Artist • The Critic • Gothicism •
Popular Fiction • The Spectator & the Gaze • The Beautiful House • The
Urban & the Rural • The Beautiful Corpse • Taste • Deformity & Disease
• The Prostitute • The Actress & Stage Beauties • The Bluestocking •
Plainness • The Dandy • Monstrosity
Deadline: 250-word proposals for
20-minute papers must be submitted to:
mivsspgconference@blueyonder.co.uk
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