This requires a wholistic perspective... CALL FOR PAPERS American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Meeting Williamsburg, VA March 20-22, 2014 Before "Culture": Imagining a Total Way of Life in the Eighteenth Century Today, academics and nonacademics alike frequently understand the human world as comprising a number of different "cultures," that is, "complex wholes" distinct in their knowledge, beliefs, practices, assumptions, and ideologies. Although it is now basic to many humanities and social science disciplines, the notion of "culture" as a "total way of life" did not emerge until the late nineteenth century. We solicit papers exploring how (or whether) eighteenth-century subjects talked, thought, and wrote about what we now call "cultures." How did the eighteenth century understand non-biological group-based differences? As empire and exploration made the sheer diversity of human life more visible to Europeans, how did they conceptualize the nature, shape, and boundaries of their own societies (or communities, or cultures, or countries, or peoples)? Abstracts of up to 300 words should be sent to panel organizers Tim Cassedy ([email protected]) and Jason Rosensweig ([email protected]) by 15 September 2013.
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