FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS:
Panel on American Literary Realism: Realism and Documentary
11th Annual Central New York Conference on Language and Literature
SUNY Cortland, Cortland NY, October 28-30 2001
The late nineteenth and early twentieth-century United States saw the rise
of literary realism and naturalism. These literary movements strove to
represent reality in a way that made a rapidly changing American social
scene intelligible to a middle class reading public.
During the same period, social documentarians such as Jacob Riis and Lewis
Hine, and reformers such as Jane Addams and her colleagues in the
settlement house movement (among many others) were representing reality as
well, with arguably similar goals.
This panel is seeking papers interested in exploring the relationships
between literary realism and naturalism and other modes of representation
which rely on realistic portrayals of "things as they are."
Possible topics might include:
The relationship between literary realism and photography
The impulse of the realist movement to represent social reality
Difficulties in representing the realities of others
The politics of representing race, class, and gender
Representations of urban space or industrial life
The realism of "slumming" literature (e.g. Jack London's People of the
Abyss)
Presentations will be 15-20 minutes. Proposals may be brief and
informal. Please send them electronically to Courtney Maloney
(cmaloney@andrew.cmu.edu), Dept. of English, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA 15213 by July 31, 20001.
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