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The 2003 Conference of the International Edith Wharton Society
Here is the schedule of times and presenters. Please check the presenters'
list below the schedule for paper titles.
14 to 17 July 2003, Southlands College, University of Surrey, Roehampton
Edith Wharton in London
The 2003 Conference of the International Edith Wharton Society
14 to 17 July 2003, Southlands College, University of Surrey, Roehampton
Monday, 14 July 2003
Conference Registration Begins at 12 noon and continues until 4 p.m.
Southlands College – Reception Area
(Rooms available at 2 p.m. Luggage can be stored.)
4 p.m. Afternoon Tea
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Opening Session
Welcoming Remarks – 4: 30 to 5 p.m.
5 p.m. Opening Plenary
“Edith Wharton and Humor,” Janet Beer and Avril Horner
6:30 p.m. Reception
7 p.m. Buffet Supper/Dinner
Tuesday, 15 July
<Breakfast served for those in campus housing>
Session 1 : 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
1a. Edith Wharton’s “Awakeners”
Jean Frantz Blackall
Frederick Wegener
Lori M. Campbell
1b. The House of Mirth: I
Paul Ohler
Elaine Pigeon
Elsa Nettels
1c. The Importance of Place
Dale Flynn
Shirley Foster
Mirjana vanZeijderveld
10:30 a.m. Morning Coffee
11 a.m. Keynote Address: Hermione Lee
12:30 p.m. Conference Lunch
2 to 3:30 p.m. Session 2
2a. Minding Morals
Rita Bode
Sarah Emsley
Sharon Kim
2b. The House of Mirth: II
Berry Bloomingdale
Emily J. Orlando
Margaret A. Toth
2c. Political Issues in the Works of Edith Wharton
William Morgan
Michael Nowlin
Robin Peel
3:30 Tea
4:00 to 5:30 p.m. Session 3
3a. Edith Wharton’s Legacy
Rosemary E. Johnsen
Nels Pearson
Teresa Gomez Reus
3b. The Custom of the Country
Sarah J. Littlefield
Deborah Scaperoth
Elaine M. Toia
3c. Edith Wharton and Film
Linda Costanzo Cahir
Anneloes van Gaalen
James M. Welsh
5:30 p.m. <Bar Open>
6:00 p.m. Dinner
7:30 p.m Featured speaker: Terence Davies, director of The House of Mirth,
Wednesday, 16 July
9 to 10:30 a.m. Session 4
4a. Edith Wharton and Henry James
Annette L. Benert
Victoria Coulson
Amy A. Easton
4b. Psychological Investigations
Pamela Knights
Kristin Lauer
Allyson G. Stack
4c. Edith Wharton & Book Studies
Edie Thornton
Shafquat Towheed
Mary Sidney Watson
10:30 Morning Coffee
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Session 5
5a. Edith Wharton and Poetry
Julie Olin-Ammentorp
Alan Price
Carol Singley
5b. Edith Wharton and the Gothic
Benjamin F. Fisher
Darcie Dine Rives
John Tibbetts
5c. The Buccanneers
Daniel Bratton
Suzanne W. Jones
Anne MacMaster
12:30 to 2 p.m. Conference Lunch and Business Meeting
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Session 6
6a. Edith Wharton Abroad: Friends and Places
Donna Campbell
Richard Dunn
6b. Travelling with Edith Wharton
James D. Wallace
Sarah Bird Wright
6c. Presentation: A Database of Edith Wharton Short Stories
Reiner Kornetta and Patricia Fra Lopez
6d. Edith Wharton and War: I
Hildegard Hoeller
Laura Saltz
3 p.m. Break
3:30 to 5 p.m. Session 7
7a. The Short Stories
Barbara Comins
Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Maria das Gracas Gomes Villa da Silva
7b. Debating Frameworks: Anthropological, Biological, Sociological Approaches to Edith Wharton
Sharon Kehl Califano
Timothy J. Lustig
Judith P. Saunders
7c. Edith Wharton and War: II
Blazek, William
Nolan, Liz
Saxon, Theresa
5 p.m. <Bar Open>
6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Dinner
8 p.m. Performance: Cherished Friend/Dearest Adversary: Edith Wharton and Henry James, Barbara Becker and Peter Amster:
9 p.m. Closing Reception
17 July 2003
9 to 10 a.m (tentative time) <Closing Conference Breakfast >
Check out of rooms by 10:30 a.m. Luggage may be stored.
NOTE: Room reservations may be extended to Friday 18 July for those wishing
an additional day in the area.
Conference Papers
Dr. Ferda Asya
Bowling Green State University (USA)
Dual Sensibility in Anarchism: Revolution and Evolution in Edith Wharton's Later
Fiction
Dr. Barbara S. Becker
(USA)
Cherished Friend/Dearest Adversary: Edith Wharton and Henry James
Dr. Annette L. Benert
DeSales University (USA)
Heartless Homes in the Works of James and Wharton
Dr. Jean Frantz Blackhall
(USA)
Journeying to Bear Mountain: The Inception of Ethan Frome
Dr. William Blazek
Liverpool Hope University College (England)
To the Front: Wharton's Artistic Engagement with World War I
Berry Bloomingdale
Loyola Marymount University (USA)
Society, Women and Marriage in The House of Mirth
Rita Bode
Trent University (Canada)
Edith Wharton: The "George Eliot" of her Time
Dr. Daniel Bratton
Miyazaki International College (Japan/Canada)
The Buccaneers and the English Leisure Class
Sharon Kehl Califano
University of New Hampshire (USA)
Shadows of North Africa and Modernistic Vision: The Racial "Othering"
of Charity Royall
Dr. Donna Campbell
Gonzaga University (USA)
"It is a kind of exile, isn't it?": Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton,
and the Place of the Literary Expatriate
Dr. Lori M. Campbell
University of Pittsburgh (USA)
What Lies Beneath, From New York to London: Defining Society, Self and Other
in the Fantastic Tales of Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde
Benjamin D. Carson
University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (USA)
"That Doubled Vision": Edith Wharton and The House of Mirth
Dr. Barbara Comins
LaGuardian Community College/CUNY (USA)
A Glance at "A Glimpse"
Joanna Cooper
Temple University (USA)
Ghosts of New England: Edith Wharton's Gothic Response to Progressive-Era Social
Control
Dr. Linda Costanzo Cahir
Centenary College (USA)
Where did "The Age of Innocence" Go Wrong?: The Aesthetics of Literature
to Film Translations
Dr. Victoria Coulson
Selwyn College (England)
Impersonality and Identification in Realism: The Vexed Friendship of Edith Wharton
and Henry James
M. Richard Dunn
(USA)
Geoffrey Scott and Edith Wharton
Amy A. Easton
Brigham Young University (USA)
Wharton and James and Fictive Portraiture
Dr. Sarah Emsley
Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (England/USA)
Virtue is its Humphry Ward: Edith Wharton, Mary Ward, and the Moral Best-seller
Susan Fanetti
Saint Louis University (USA)
Women on the Edge: Lily Bart, Maggie Tulliver,and the Disenfranchisement of
the Unmarried Woman
Dr. Benjamin F. Fisher
University of Mississippi (USA)
"All [Weird/Disturbed] Souls": Wharton's Ghostly Tales
Dr. Dale Flynn
University of California, Davis (USA)
Edith Wharton in England: A Literary History in Pictures
Dr. Shirley Foster
University of Sheffield (England)
Garden Images in the Writings of Edith Wharton
Cristina Giorcelli
University of Rome Three Italy
Wharton and Malta
Dr. Meredith Goldsmith
Whitman College (USA)
Svengali, Rosedale, Freud: Jewish Masculinity in Wharton in its European Contexts
Dr. Jennifer Haytock
University of Illinois at Springfield (USA)
Dr. Merkle and Female Sexuality in Summer
Dr. Deborah Hecht
Touro Law Center (USA)
Edith Wharton: Representing Lawyers
Dr. Hildegard Hoeller
CUNY, Staten Island (USA)
Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France II
Dr. Lisa Jadwin
St. John Fisher College (USA)
Readerly Ambivalence in The Age of Innocence
Dr. Li Jin
P.R. China
Characterization of Women in The American and The Age of Innocence
Rosemary E. Johnsen
Grand Valley State University (USA)
Rosamond Lehmann: One of Edith Wharton's English Inheritors
W. Suzanne Jones
University of Richmond (USA)
The Relation of the Novelist to Daydreaming: Edith Wharton's The Buccaneers
as Revisionary Memoir
Dr. Sharon Kim
Judson College (USA)
Edith Wharton's Engagement with Modernist Literary Epiphany
Dr. Pamela Knights
University of Durham (England)
The White Light of the Mind: Edith Wharton's Night Thoughts
Dr. Reiner Kornetta
Teacher's College Ludwigsburg (Germany)
A Database of Edith Wharton's Short Stories
Dr. Kristin Lauer
Fordham University, Dept of English (USA)
Gallery of the Damned: The Secret Agenda of Edith Wharton's Lovers
Dr. Sarah J. Littlefield
Salve Regina University (USA)
Female Friendship in the Memoirs, Letters, and Literature of Edith Wharton
Dr. Patricia Lopez
University of Santiago de Compostella
(See above: joint presentation with Reiner Kornetta)
Timothy John Lustig
Keele University (England)
Rereading The Age of Innocence: Anthropology or Sociology?
Dr. Anne MacMaster
Millsaps College (USA)
The Buccaneers as Subversive Novel in the 1930
Christine Mahady
University of Pittsburgh (USA)
Beyond Forces: Edith Wharton's Dialogue with American Literary Naturalism
Dr. William M. Morgan
DePauw University (USA)
Summer, Wilsonian Neutrality, and the Language of Friendship
Dr. Susan Meyer
Wellesley College (USA)
"Crossing, Sir?": Art, England, and Henry James in Edith Wharton's
The Reef
Dr. Radmila Nastic
(Yugoslavia)
Edith Wharton's Tragic Paradigm
Dr. Elsa Nettels
College of William and Mary (USA)
Wharton and Hardy: Creating the "Sense of Fatality" in The House
of Mirth and Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Liz Nolan
Manchester Metropolitan University (England)
(See below: joint presentation with Teresa Saxon)
Dr. Michael Nowlin
University of Victoria (Canada)
Before the Country's Awakening": Mis-recognition and National Growth in
"The Spark"
Paul Ohler
University of British Columbia (Canada)
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process": T.H. Huxley's
"Evolution and Ethics" and The House of Mirth
Dr. Julie Olin-Ammentorp
LeMoyne College (USA)
Wharton's War Elegies
Dr. Emily J. Orlando
Tennessee State University (USA)
"Pictures of Lily": Body Art in The House of Mirth
Monika Pacziga
University of Kansas (USA)
Women and Romantic Love in Edith Wharton and Gustav Klimt
Dr. Nels Pearson
Tennessee State University (USA)
Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Bowen
Dr. Robin Peel
University of Plymouth (England)
Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton and Politics
Elaine Pigeon
Concordia University (Canada)
Redrawing The Portrait: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth
Dr. Alan Price
Penn State University, Hazelton (USA)
Wharton and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson: When Friends Become Mentors
Alicia Mischa Renfroe
University of Tennessee (USA)
"The Law of Its Little Life": The Role of Justice in Henry James's
"What Maisie Knew" and Edith Wharton's The Children
Dr. Teresa Gomez Reus
University of Alicante (Spain)
Wharton's Legacy to English Women Writers: Moments of Similarity between "Pomegranate
Seed" and Rebecca
Darcie Dines Rives
University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (USA)
Can this Woman's Home be Saved?: Gothic Ficatin and Edith Wharton's The Decoration
of Houses
Dr. Deborah Robinson
Roger Williams University (USA)
(See above: joint presentation with Sarah Littlefield)
Karin Roffman
Yale University (USA)
Edith Wharton and the London Museums: Curators and Writers
Dr. Augusta Rohrbach
Harvard University (USA)
Lights, Camera: House of Mirth!
Dr. Laura Saltz
Colby College (USA)
Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France I
Judith P. Saunders
Marist College (USA)
Evolutionary Biological Issues in The Children
Theresa Saxon
Manchester Metropolitan University (England)
War in Words: Edith Wharton and Henry James in World War One
Deborah Scaperoth
University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA)
Undine Spragg as Symbol of the Maiden in the Unicorn Tapestries
Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros
Kean University (USA)
Nietzsche and The Custom of the Country
Dr. Carol Singley
Rutgers University, Camden (USA)
Edith Wharton and A.E. Housman: Literary Friendship, Common Threads
Allyson G. Stack
University of Edinburgh (Scotland)
"Beatrice Palmato" and Wharton's Theory of the Uncanny
Dr. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney
Holy Cross College (USA)
Ghost Writing: The Spirit of Henry James in Wharton's "Mr. Jones"
Dr. Edie Thornton
University of Wisconsin--Whitewater (USA)
From Gibson Girl to The X Files: Refashioning Lily Bart, 1905-2000
John Tibbetts
University of Kansas (USA)
Edith Wharton's Ghostly Short Stories
Dr. Elaine M. Toia
SUNY, Rockland Community College (USA)
The Custom of the Country: Reflections and Self-Reflection
Margaret A. Toth
Tufts University (USA)
Cannibalism, Starvation, and the Female Body in The House of Mirth
Dr. Shafquat Towheed
University of Nottingham (England)
Edith Wharton and her London Publishers
Madeleine A. Vala
University of Michigan (USA)
Wharton's Sentimental Art(ists) and the International Scene
Anneloes van Gaalen
University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
"All the World's A Stage": Theatricality in The House of Mirth
and The Age of Innocence
Mirjana van Zeijderveld
(The Netherlands)
New York in the Novels of Edith Wharton
Dr. Maria das Gracas Gomes Villa da Silva
Unesp-Universidade Estadual Paulista-Campus Araraquara-Sao Paul-Brazil (Brazil)
Edith Wharton's "Xingu": An Exotic Poisonous Writing
Dr. James D. Wallace
Boston College (USA)
Wharton's Motor-Flight and the Cost of Connoisseurship
Mary Sidney Watson
Oklahoma Baptist University (USA)
Wharton's Declaration of Independence: The Contest Over the Imagining of Eliot
Dr. Frederick Wegener
California State University, Long Beach (USA)
The Forgotten "Awakener": Robert Browning in the Work of Edith Wharton
Deborah Lindsay Williams
Iona College (USA)
Not Dead Yet: Edith Wharton's Challenges to the Literary World in Hudson
River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive
Dr. Sarah Bird Wright
University of Richmond (USA)
Edith Wharton, Vernon Lee, and the Genius Loci
Dr. Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Harvard University
EDITH WHARTON AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE MOUNT, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS, 1901-1911
The Keynote Speaker will be Hermione Lee, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature at Oxford and the author of a new biography of Edith Wharton. (To hear an interview with Hermione Lee about her work on Wharton, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/speech/workinp/lee.shtml.)