CFP: Simms Society 2014 Conference
The William Gilmore Simms Society invites all interested scholars to a conference exploring the past and the future of Simms studies. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870) was the antebellum South’s most prolific writer and one of its best-known public intellectuals as a novelist, poet, critic, and historian. The Simms Society welcomes academics, graduate students, and undergraduates from all disciplines — especially history, literature, philosophy, and political science — to contribute papers on any aspect of Simms’s life and work for this major national conference. While the conference will address Simms and his writing from all perspectives, special themes will focus on possible future paradigm shifts in Simms studies, the implications of nineteenth and twentieth century trends for twenty-first century Simms scholarship, and the place of Simms in the liberal education curriculum and thus the literary culture of the future.
Location: South Carolina
Call for Papers Date: Sept. 25, 2014.
Revised papers will be considered for inclusion in The Simms Review. (http://www.westga.edu/~simms/simms_review.html)
Web site for William Gilmore Simms Society: http://www.westga.edu/~simms/
H-Net Announcement: http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=208033
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