A call for abstracts for a session at the 2001 American Studies
conference in Washington DC - November 8-11th.
Peeling the Paint: New Views of <i>The Gilded Age</i>
In 1873, Charles Dudley Warner and Mark Twain managed to name an era in
an all-but-forgotten novel. What was it about this novel that
captured the public imagination and why is it that "The Gilded
Age" is often thought of as the decades that followed the 1870s and
not the 70s themselves? How did the dramatization of <i>The Gilded
Age</i> shape later treatments of political lampooning? How did
that term enter the vernacular? What was beneath the gilt?
Papers are sought that treat <i>The Gilded Age</i> from all sorts of
perspectives, particularly those that examine the ways in which the joint
authorship has been reckoned with or which analyze the cultural role of
its theatrical interpretations.
Send abstracts before November 15th to Susanna Ashton:
sashton@clemson.edu.
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