CALL FOR PROPOSALS: WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT THE 2002 MODERN
LANGUAGE ASSOC. CONVENTION, 27-30 Dec, New York City
[Please note: As an allied organization, the William Morris Society is
guaranteed these two panels; they are not "special sessions."]
The Morris Society invites submissions on the following two topics:
Panel One.
“The Arts and Crafts Movement: Nineteenth-Century Ideas, Twentieth-Century
Effects”
Behind the artifacts, architecture, and institutions of Modern art and
design lie ideas--aesthetic, social, political--many of which originated
in the Arts and Crafts movement of the nineteenth century. This panel will
explore the influence of the Arts and Crafts progenitors, theorists, and
exponents (figures such as William Morris, John Ruskin, Candace Wheeler,
Walter Crane, Christopher Dresser, Henry Cole, Arthur H. Mackmurdo, Mary
Haweis, or W. R. Lethaby, to name a few) on twentieth-century
artists,designers, typographers, and writers. The topic will be
interpreted broadly, and papers may deal with specific individuals (for
example,Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gustav Stickley, Otto Wagner,
Helen and Scott Nearing, etc.), specific kinds of artifacts (private press
books, Mission furniture, The Craftsman magazine), or groups (the Bauhuas,
Omega Workshops, the Roycrofters).
The Chair of this session will be Margaret D. Stetz,
Georgetown University.
Email submissions of the 250-word proposals (to Biblio@aol.com) are preferred.
Proposals are due no later than 25 March and go to:
Mark Samuels Lasner, President
William Morris Society in the US
P.O. Box 53263
Washington, DC 20009
Email: Biblio@aol.com
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Panel Two.
“New Views of the Pre-Raphaelite Writers and Their Work”
The Pre-Raphaelite writers and their associates have,in the last decade,
been the subject of renewed interest. Editions of their
correspondence,editions of their poetry and prose, and a plethora of books
and articles all have opened the way for expanded or different--in some
cases revisionist--views of their lives and works. We seek biographical or
critical discussions which deal with recent information or interpretations
or which, alternatively, provide such new information or interpretations
themselves. The Pre-Raphaelite writers are defined here as the original
members of the Brotherhood and their associates,friends, and immediate
followers--the lesser known writers (such as William Allingham, Simeon
Solomon, and Barbara Bodichon), as well as the canonical figures,
including the Rossettis (Christina, Dante Gabriel, and William
Michael),Morris, Ruskin, and Swinburne.
The Chair of this session will be Florence Boos, University of Iowa.
Email submissions of the 250-word proposals (to Biblio@aol.com) are preferred.
Proposals are due no later than 25 March and go to:
Mark Samuels Lasner, President
William Morris Society in the US
P.O. Box 53263
Washington, DC 20009
Email: Biblio@aol.com
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Participation by independent scholars and non-academics is especially
encouraged, but please be aware that to take part in the MLA convention
and to be listed in the program all speakers must be members of the Modern
Language Association by 1 April 2002, unless not professionally engaged in
the teaching of literature or language. Papers are strictly limited to 15
minutes in reading length, as per MLA regulations; session chairs will
stop those who exceed this limit.
Proposals should also state what kinds(s) of audio-visual equipment, if
any, will be needed, if the paper is accepted.
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