Essay

“Howells, Julian Hawthorne, and the Realism War,” by Gary Scharnhorst . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

Call for Howells Essay Prize Submissions from presenters of Howells papers at the 2012 American Literature Association Conference . . . . . . . . . . 3

Essay Abstracts Papers delivered at the 2012 American Literature Association Conference, San Francisco . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Call for Papers for Howells Panels at the 2013 ALA Conference, Boston . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Minutes of the Howells Society Annual Meeting, May 2012. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Howells Prize Essay
Membership Information

Message from the Editor......................................................1
Editor Sought for The Howellsian......................................1
Update on the Howells Fellowship at the Houghton Library, Harvard University.............................1
Join the Howells Listserv......................................................1
W.D. Howells Business Meeting..........................................2
2008 American Literature Association National Conference..............................................................3
Abstracts from the Howells Sessions at ALA

• The Cowhiding in The Kentons:Late Howells and the Domestic Histories of Violence...........................................3
• Smiling Aspects: Howells and the Domestication of Realism....................................................3
• Consumption and Cannibalism in the Altrurian Romances of William Dean Howells............................................................4
• “Something Strange and Foreign”:Integrating the Domestic Body in William Dean Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham............5
• “Well, we must stand it, anyway”: Exploring the ReappropriatedImages of Ameriican Women in
• Howells’s The Rise of Silas Lapham...................................5
• William Dean Howells’s Narrative Instruction for Reading the Artificial Career Woman and the
  Authentic Domestic Woman...............................................6

Call for Papers: Howells Panels at ALA 2009..................7

WDHS Events at ALA 2007: "A Banner Weekend in Boston" by Sanford Marovitz
Minutes from the WDHS Business Meeting
Howells Prize Essay: "Marriage and the American Medical Woman in Dr. Breen's Practice" by Frederick Wegener (California State University at Long Beach)
Howells Memorial House in Danger of Being Sold
Book review by Riccarda Sagese: Venetian Nights, newly translated into Italian.

Abstracts from ALA Panels on Howells

• “A Grammar of Marriage: Love in Spite of Syntax in Silas Lapham,” William Rodney Herring, University of Texas
• “The Art of Marriage: Taking the Woman Artist as Wife in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Sherry Li, National Taiwan University
• “Marriage and the American Medical Woman in Dr. Breen’s Practice,” Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach
• “Movement, Modernity, and the Marriage of Elinor Mead and William Dean Howells,” Elif Armbruster, Suffolk University
• “Love in Leisure Spaces: Tourism, Courtship, and Marriage in The Coast of Bohemia and An Open-eyed Conspiracy,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University
• “If You Liked That, You’ll Like This: Howells and Theodor Fontane on Marriage,” Richard Ellington, Independent Scholar

• Announcement of Tavern Club Dinner and Excursion to Kittery Point
• ALA Panels
• Howells Society Prize Essay: “Guilt by Dissociation; or, the Merciless Quality of The Quality of Mercy” by Michael Anesko ( Pennsylvania State University)
• Book review by Elsa Nettels: Conscience and Purpose: Fiction and Social Consciousness in Howells, Jewett, Chesnutt, and Cather by Paul R. Petrie.
• Howells Society Elections

• Abstracts from Howells Sessions
• Howells Dinner and Excursion to Kittery Point at ALA 2007
• Book review by Sarah Daugherty: The Master and the Dean by Rob Davidson
• Announcement of Howells Essay Prize Winner
• Call for Papers for ALA 2007

• Article: "William Dean Howells and Harold Frederic" by Patrick K. Dooley
• WDHS activities and announcements:
  • Howells essay prize
  • New howells-l discussion list
• Annotated bibliography of recent Howells criticism
• The WDH Society web site (article)

• Article: "Twain's Whitter Birthday Speech and Howells" by Jerome Loving
• Book review: William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life, reviewed by Sarah Daugherty
• Howells abstracts from ALA 2005
• WDHS activities and announcements

• Book excerpt: William Dean Howells: A Writer's Life by Susan Goodman and Carl Dawson
• WDHS activities and announcements
• Howells sessions at ALA
• Recent criticism on Howells

Note: This picture was scanned by me in 1997 from an out-of-copyright source.

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