Date: October 2008 Place: Chicago, Illinois Venue: The Newberry Library and the Westin Michigan Avenue Download Chicago conference program as Word document Call for Papers "Frances Burney and the City" The Burney Society of North America will hold its fourth biennial conference in Chicago, Illinois, on October 2 and 3, 2008 at the Newberry Library. The conference hotel, the Westin Michigan Avenue, is conveniently located just a few blocks away. We are pleased to announce that Helen Thompson, Associate Professor of English at Northwestern University, will be our plenary speaker. In keeping with the urban venue of Chicago, the conference will explore the topic "Frances Burney and the City." We invite proposals for papers, panels, or roundtables that discuss any topic related to representations of urban life in Burney's novels, plays, letters, and journals. Participants may focus on a particular city-London, Paris, Bristol, or Brighton for example-or on Burney's treatment of urban phenomena that recur in her portrayal of several cities. Papers might also contrast Burney's vision of the urban with the rural or explore aspects of urban life-employment, leisure, shopping, entertainment, economics, architecture, religion, crowds, or time. Alternatively, papers could set forth ideological interpretations of Burney's representation of urban life and investigate class structures, gender boundaries, or racial issues. Please send one-page proposals for papers and panels to Catherine M. Parisian at cmparisian@verizon.net, or 45 Stoney Glen, Nellysford, VA 22958 by May 1, 2008 (electronic submissions preferred). Please note any audio/visual requirements in your proposals. Submissions from graduate students are especially welcome. Participants will be notified by May 15. For more information about the Burney Society and how to become a member, please visit our website at http://dc37.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/burney. You may also wish to visit the Burney Centre website at http://burneycentre.mcgill.ca. Download call for papers as Word document Back

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