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SEDGWICK EVENTS AT THE AMERICAN LITERATURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, May 24-27, San Francisco, CA
Sedgwick Society Business Meeting
Friday, May 25th, 11:10 am-12:30 pm (Golden Gate Room)
The Sedgwick Society will meet with members of the Irving Society to discuss possible future collaborations. All interested persons (whether members of CMSS or not) are welcome.
Sedgwick Society panel: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Long 19th Century
Friday, May 25, 2:10 – 3:30 pm (Pacific K)
Chair: Pat Kalayjian, California State University-Dominguez Hills
1. “Maenad-in-Motion: Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Transatlantic Negotiation and Revival of Classical Art and Culture in A New-England Tale,” Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University.
2. “Fighting the ‘flippant idlers of fashionable life’: Prescriptive Education in Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s Clarence: A Tale of Our Own Times,” Jordan L. Von Cannon, Louisiana State University.
3. “The Prospects of the American Woman: Women, Marriage, and Nation in Sedgwick and Wharton,” Tarah Demant, Mills College.
Philosophical Considerations in American Literary Culture
Thursday, May 24, 4:30-5:50 pm (Pacific B)
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
1. “To Be “Rational, Responsible, and Self-Depending Beings”: Catharine Sedgwick’s Contributions to Early American Philosophy,” Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State University (click here to read an abstract)
2. “Unhomely Creatures: Sentiment and Species Difference in Bartram and Thoreau,” Neill Matheson, University of Texas at Arlington
3. “Lafcadio Hearn’s “Re-told” Ghostly Narrative: Evoking Ghosts and Creating Home in a Foreign Landscape,” Hitomi Nabae, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
The Catharine Maria Sedgwick Society promotes the study and awareness of Sedgwick’s life and works. It aims to increase availability and access to her writings and offers a forum for established and emerging scholars, as well as others interested in Sedgwick, to exchange ideas, research, and pedagogical strategies.
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