Howells Sessions at ALA 2002

The American Literature Association Conference
Hyatt Regency Long Beach
200 Pine Ave
Long Beach, CA 90802
May 30 - June 2, 2002 Session VI: Thursday, May 30, 2:00-3:20 p.m.
A.    PHILANTHROPY AND REFORM IN HOWELLS'S FICTION, Regency C
Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary and the William Dean Howells Society

1.  "Social Capital and the Problem of Benevolence in Howells's Annie Kilburn,"
Melissa M. Pennell, University of Massachusetts-Lowell

2.     "'The Sensation of Doing Good': The Uneasy Status of Charity in Howells's The Minister's Charge," David J. Nordloh, Indiana University

3.     "Charity and Realism," Agnieszka Zylowska Goeller , Rutgers University

Session XV: Friday, May 31, 3:30-4:50 p.m.
E. PRIVATE LIVES IN SOCIAL CONTEXTS IN HOWELLS'S FICTION, Seaview A

Chair: Sanford E. Marovitz, Kent State University and the William Dean Howells Society

1.     "The Foregone Hazard of New Fictions," Susan Goodman, University of Delaware

2.     "'The Grotesque Confusion of Our Economic': William Dean Howells and the Lost Language of the Gift," Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island

3.     "Romance as Reform: The Marriage Fiction of William Dean Howells," Laura K. Johnson, Harvard University

Other Sessions with Papers on Howells

Session XIX: Saturday, June 1, 10:00-11:20 a.m.
G.    LITERARY STEREOTYPING IN 19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY AMERICA, Seaview C
Chair: Thomas Wortham, UCLA

1. "(Stereo) Types and Sentimental Nationalism in Uncle Tom's Cabin," Christopher Diller, Berry College

      2. "Scrapping the Fictions, Garreting the Bogeys and Settling Down to a Realistic Facing of Facts: Home to Harlem, McKay's Response to Alain Locke's 'The New Negro,'" Wilfred Samuels, University of Utah

      3."Rejecting the Recipe: (De)racing Sterotypes of Reconstruction in Howells' An Imperative Duty," Susan M. Stone, Loras College

      4. "Self-Stereotyping in African American Literature: The Case of Oscar Micheaux," Blake Allmendinger, UCLA