Howells Sessions at ALA 2006 Friday, May 26, 2006 9:30am – 10:50am Session 9-D Howells and Women (Pacific Concourse D) Organized by the William Dean Howells Society 1. “Guilt by Dissociation; or, the Merciless Quality of The Quality of Mercy,” Michael Anesko, Penn State University 2. “The Gifted Women: Realism, the Canon, and Howell’s Heroines of Fiction,” Robert Davidson, California State University, Chico 3. “Tears (Not So) Idle Tears: Empathy and Imagination in The Rise of Silas Lapham,” Darrin Doyle, University of Cincinnati Friday, May 26, 2006 12:30pm – 1:50pm Session 11-A Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Pacific Concourse A) Saturday, May 27, 2006 8:00am – 9:20am Session 16-E The Unexpected Howells (Pacific Concourse E) Organized by the William Dean Howells Society 1. “‘What gountry has a poor man got’: Inequality and Individualism in The Hazard of New Fortunes,” Jason Potts, Johns Hopkins University 2. “Contractual Obligation and Necessity in William Dean Howells’s A Modern Instance,” Mischa Renfroe, Middle Tennessee State University 3. “‘His Apparation’ and the Spectre of Communism,” Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College Howells Sessions at ALA 2005 in BostonHowells and Others |
Reception at ALA 2004 |
John Crichton of the Brick Row Book Shop will host a reception for the Howells Society at ALA 2004. Time: 5-7 p.m., Friday, May 28th, 5-7 p.m. Place: Book Club of California, Suite 510, 312 Sutter St., San Francisco, CA 94108. More information on all of these events is available at the American
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Saturday, May 29 9:30-10:50 a.m.
Business meeting
Saturday, May 29 2:00-3:20
Session 20-D Howells and the "Great American Novel"
Organized by the Howells Society
Chair: Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary
1. "Implied Readers / Inferred Judgments: Constructing Class in The Rise of Silas Lapham, "
Michael Anesko, Pennsylvania State University
2. "What Kind of Novelist Was He?" Carl Dawson, University of Delaware
3. "Images of the Prodigal: The Moral Didactics and Philosophy of William Dean Howells in The Rise of Silas Lapham ," Christopher E. Garrett, Texas A&M University
Saturday, May 29 3:30-4:50 p.m.
II. Howells's Autobiographical Writings
Organized by the Howells Society
Chair: Susan Goodman, University of Delaware
1. Polly H. Howells, "A Great-Grandfather's Legacy: Reading my Life Through His Works"
2. Clare Colquitt, "The Art of Remembering: James, Wharton, and Howells"
3. Thomas Wortham, "The Radical Howells"