Edith Wharton Sessions and Business Meeting at ALA , May 2005
Saturday, May 28, 2005
8:00 - 9:20 am
Session 16-G Edith Wharton and Money (Place TBA)
Organized by the Edith Wharton Society
Chair: Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island - City University
of New York
1. "'It Cost Him a Visible Effort to Take a Few Steps.':
Wharton's Use of Money as a Signifer of Disability in Ethan Frome," Christopher
Bell, University of Illinois at Chicago .
2. "Edith Wharton and Money: The Financial Factor on the Axis
of Heterosexual and Homosocial Relationships," Stephanie Taitano,
University of Texas , Arlington .
3. "The Jewish Economy of Risk in The House of Mirth," Naomi Reed,
University of Illinois , Urbana-Champaign.
Saturday, May 28, 2005 9:30-10:50 am
Session 17J: Business Meeting of the Edith Wharton Society (Place TBA)
Saturday, May 28, 2005 11:00 am - 12:20
pm (Place TBA)
Session 18-G Edith Wharton: Critical Perspectives.
Organized by the Edith Wharton Society
Chair: Carol Sapora, Villa Julie College
1. "A Critical Rivalry: The Competing
Methods of Mrs. Wharton and Mrs. Woolf," Sharon Kehl Califano,
University of New Hampshire .
2. "The Critics, The Canon, and Cultural
Capital: Edith Wharton as a Short Story Writer," Gary Totten, North Dakota
State University .
3. "'Wherever You Seize It, It's Interesting':
Subject, Class, and Aesthetic Value in Edith Wharton's Critical Prose," Frederick
Wegener, California State University , Long Beach . |
