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*CFP: SPECIAL ISSUE OF 'NEO-VICTORIAN STUDIES'*

*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 12 September 2008*



"Swing your razor high...":

Sweeney Todd and Other (Neo-)Victorian Criminalities



In collaboration with '"Attend the tale"...New Contexts for Sweeney Todd', a
symposium held 31 May 2008 at the Lincoln Centre of Performing Arts, UK, the
inter-disciplinary, peer-reviewed e-journal, 'Neo-Victorian Studies' will
publish a special issue on nineteenth century crimes, in Britain and
elsewhere, and their continuing fascination for twentieth/twenty-first
century writers, artists, and theorists. Papers examining the historicity of
crime are especially welcome, so as to explore the variability - and
potential continuities - of crime, its place in the popular imagination, and
its cultural meanings between different periods.



Possible topics include (but are not limited to):

* The Sweeney Todd legend and its various performance contexts

* Jack the Ripper and/or the serial killer's afterlife

* criminal consumption: penny dreadful to hypertext

* shady cities, underworlds, and villainous topographies

* crime and punishment

* queering criminality

* the villain as racial Other

* gendering criminal performativity

* erotic horrors and sex crimes

* proper detectives and private sleuths

* the medicalisation of criminal pathology

* industrial espionage and sabotage

* historical revisions/adaptations of 'real-life' crimes

* child murderers

* badness and madness

* crime and the occult

* crime writing as cultural commentary/memory

* crime in/as Art

* the historicity of crime



Articles or creative pieces should be between 6000-8000 words, submitted by
email for peer-review to both the Guest Editors Kelly Jones and Benjamin
Poore at [log in to unmask] and the General Editor Marie-Luise Kohlke at
[log in to unmask]



For further submission guidelines, please consult the journal website at
http://www.neovictorianstudies.com<https://webmail.worc.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.neovictorianstudies.com/>
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