CFP: Henry James and the Lost Generation (Paris, July 5-8, 2002)
Conference papers sought on Henry James and the expatriate writers of
the Lost Generation, for a panel to be proposed for the International
Conference of the Henry James Society, July 5-8, 2002. The conference
will be held at the American University of Paris.
Henry James was a kind of proto-modernist, both in his commitment to a
highly crafted, self-conscious mode of writing and in his struggle to
balance the claims of literary and cultural tradition with the facts of
modern life. His belief that the American scene was in some way inimical
to the production and appreciation of art had a special resonance for
American modernists.
How did later American expatriates -- T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, Djuna Barnes, Ernest Hemingway, and others
-- respond to James's example, in their work and in their lives as
writers? How did his legacy inspire, influence, challenge and disturb
them? What does the familiar story of the Lost Generation owe to James's
romance of the American abroad?
Papers which deal with Paris, as setting and subject, are especially
welcome.
Please send 500-word abstract and 2-page CV by November 1 to:
Heather O'Donnell
Princeton University
Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts
Joseph Henry House
Princeton NJ 08544
odonnell@princeton.edu
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