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Conferences 2001
ALA
Conference Panels
Update: William Dean Howells Conference
at Kittery Point
Here is the description, which
has been made available by permission of Roger Stoddard at the Houghton
Library:
Further information on registration
will be published here as it becomes available.
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On behalf of the William Dean
Howells Memorial Committee of Harvard University, I invite you to participate
in a conference entitled "New Psychology, New Politics: William
Dean Howells and His Contemporaries," to be held at Harvard University
and the Howells Memorial in Kittery Point, Maine, on Saturday and Sunday,
26-27 May, 2001.
The conference will begin Saturday
afternoon at 5 p.m. with a public lecture on "William Dean Howells:
A View from New York" by Adam Gopnik, author of Paris to the Moon and
a member of the editorial staff of the New Yorker, to be held in
the Barker Center on the Harvard campus. That lecture will be followed
by a dinner for conference participants and other guests at the Tavern
Club, Boston. On Sunday morning participants will be bused
to the Howells Memorial at Kittery Point where, in addition to the
opportunity to enjoy the surroundings, they will hear overview commentaries
on the conference topic by several distinguished presenters and participate
in an open discussion. Presenters include Professor Daniel
H. Borus of the University of Rochester who will consider Howells's The
Coast of Bohemia in the larger context of Bohemian literature
in the 1890's, and Professor T.J. Jackson Lears of Rutgers University
whose talk, "William Dean Howells and the Socialist Taming of Chance," will
focus on Howells's deepening social concerns in that same decade.Conference
participants will return to Cambridge by late Sunday afternoon. Meals
from Saturday dinner through Sunday luncheon will be provided, as
well as transport on both days. Your expenses, then, will consist
of transportation to Boston and lodging. Every effort is being made
to coordinate the events of the Howells conference with those of
the American Literature Association, which is meeting in the area
over this same weekend.
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American
Literature Association Conference
24-27 May 2001
Hyatt Regency Cambridge, Massachusetts
For full conference details, go to http://www.calstatela.edu/academic/english/ala/program2001.html
 Session XVIII: Saturday, May
26, 2001, 8:00-8:50 a.m.
D. BUSINESS MEETING: William Dean Howells
Society, Paul Revere B
Session XV: Friday, May 25,
2001, 2:00-3:20 p.m.
C. THE LEGACY OF WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS, John Quincy
Adams Ballroom
Chair: Sanford E. Marovitz, Kent State University
and the William Dean Howells Society
1."W. D. Howells and Mary Wilkins
Freeman," Donna Campbell, Gonzaga University
2."Howells, Millard, Norris, and 'The
Great American Novel,'" Jesse Crisler, Brigham Young University
3."Howells and Wharton: Indian Summer
and The Children," Elsa Nettels, College of William and Mary
Other
sessions with papers on Howells
Session VIII: Thursday, May 24, 2001, 5:00-6:20
p.m.
E. THE USES OF VIOLENCE, John Adams Ballroom
1."William Dean Howells and the
Problem of Social Reform," Kristin Boudreau, University of Georgia
Session XX: Saturday, May 26, 2001, 9:30-10:50
a.m.
H. UTOPIANISM AND US LITERARY CULTURE IN THE GILDED
AGE, Thomas Paine B
1."W.D. Howells and the Utopian
Marketplace," Gib Prettyman, Penn State University, Fayette
Session XXI: Saturday, May 26, 2001, 11:00-12:30
a.m.
F. SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, AND US LITERATURE, John Quincy
Adams Ballroom
2."Brain Disorders and Realism:
Howells and Continental Neurology," Randall Knoper, University of Massachusetts
Conference
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