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The Darkest Cavities: Stomachs and Sinkholes in Early U.S. Texts: A Workshop for Alison Carr

Jan
20
The Eighteenth-Century Studies Group
continues its 2010/11 event series
with a workshop for:

Alison Carr

 The Darkest Cavities:
Stomachs and Sinkholes in Early U.S. Texts

This chapter, part of a dissertation examining writing about American animals in the early United States, considers how writers encountered and negotiated subsurface "interiors" of the American natural world. Whereas Enlightenment empiricism in general and eighteenth-century natural history in particular were predicated on observing the visible surfaces of nature, these interior spaces--animal stomachs, subterranean dens and caverns--were associated with the impairment of vision and rationalism, and seemed to necessitate new rhetorical and epistemological modes in conceiving of and describing the shape of the new nation.

Alison Carr is a doctoral candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Michigan.

This is a workshop of a pre-circulated paper. The paper will be available next week on the ECSG website under Current Reading: http://www.umich.edu/~ecsg/  You may also receive the paper as an email attachment by replying to this message.

Please join us for conversation and refreshments at our fourth event of 2010/11 academic year.
Start Time: 1/20/2011  4:00 PM
Location: 3241 Angell Hall
Website: http://www.umich.edu/~ecsg
Contact: geremyc@umich.edu
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