The deadlines for the following sessions have been extended from 11/15 to
11/22/99.
Calls for Papers
Edith Wharton at ALA 2000
Long Beach, CA
May 25-28, 2000
1. Eating and Orality in the Life and Work of Edith Wharton
Cynthia Griffin Wolff has attributed to Edith Wharton an "infantile sense
of unsatisfied, insatiable oral longing." Whether or not such a longing
manifests itself in Wharton's fiction and other writings is open to
debate, but as both a hostess and a novelist of manners she undeniably
brought together some of literature's most memorable diners, dinners, and
dining rooms. In addition to the oral personality and oral sexuality in
Wharton's life and work, possible topics for this panel include
culinary taste and table manners as motifs in Wharton's fiction; Wharton's
own aesthetic of dining as conveyed in her autobiographies and the
_Decoration of Houses; connections between culinary and other kinds of
taste, gourmandism and sexual appetite, abstemiousness and control; food
loathings, cravings, and eating disorders; the club dining room or
restaurant as setting; the function of informal, such as _al fresco_,
meals; the table as a site of struggle and seduction; class, gender, and
ethnic differences in attitudes towards food.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts by November 22, 1999 to
Elizabeth Keyser
PO Box 9674
Hollins University
Roanoke, VA 24020
2. Edith Wharton and Education
>From the chapter on "School-Rooms" in The Decoration of Houses to her
memories of a largely self-taught youth in _A Backward Glance_, Edith
Wharton's writing reflects a pervasive but seldom-noted concern with the
phenomenon of education. The variety of ways in which such a concern
manifests itself throughout her life and work will be the focus of this
panel. Suggested possibilities: education and issues of class; the role
of tutelage or mentorship; women and "the Higher Education"; scenes of
reading or instruction; "sexual" or "sentimental education" as central
themes; Wharton's response to progressive modes of educational theory and
practice.
Please send 1-2 page abstracts by November 22, 1999, to
Frederick Wegener
Department of English
California State University Long Beach
1250 Bellflower Blvd.
Long Beach, CA 90840-2403
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