Midwest Modern Language Association Convention
November 8-11, 2007
Cleveland, Ohio

Call for Papers:
Early Visual Media and European Literatures
This panel invites papers that explore the intersection of European
literature and visual media—such as the camera obscura, phantasmagoria,
panorama, diorama, and the kaleidoscope—before the advent of photography
and cinema. We welcome papers including but not limited to the
relationship between old and new technologies; virtual reality and
illusionism; bourgeois entertainment; dilettantism and experimentation;
interrogations of scholarly constructions of spectacle, attention,
realism, and observation; cultural encounters; and competing regimes of
visual consumption. Please submit an abstract (250 words) in the body of
an e-mail message by April 15, 2007 to Vance Byrd, U. of Pennsylvania,
vbyrdsas.upenn.edu.

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