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Wednesday, June 17th
Registration Hotel Lobby
5:00-8:00
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Thursday, June 18th 8:30-9:45
Session 1-A
New Approaches to The Age of Innocence (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “Secular Humanism in The Age of Innocence,” Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University
2. “When ‘New York was a Metropolis’: Urban Modernity in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,” Sophia Basaldua-Sun, Stonybrook University
3. “‘Ignorance on One Side and Hypocrisy on the Other’: Edith Wharton’s American Skepticism in The Age of Innocence,” M. M. Dawley, Lesley University
Session 1-B
New York City Cultures (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “‘This killing New York life’: Edith Wharton and the tyranny of place in Twilight Sleep,” Deborah Snow Molloy, University of Glasgow
2. “Business and Beauty in Wharton’s and Cather’s New York,” Julie Olin-Ammentorp, Le Moyne College
3. “Renunciation and Elective Affinities between ‘Age of Innocence’ and ‘Jazz Age’: Marriage and Parenthood in Wharton’s novels of ‘old’ and ‘new’ New York,” Maria-Novella Mercuri Rosta, University College London
Session 1-C
Edith Wharton & Temporality (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “Edith Wharton’s Teleiopoetic New York,” Laura S. Witherington, University of Arkansas at Fort Smith
2. “‘Talking Against Time’ in The Age of Innocence,” Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach
3. “Wharton’s Anachronistic New York,” John Sampson, Johns Hopkins University
10:00-11:15
Session 2-A
New Approaches to Wharton and Mediums of Art (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “Bunner Sisters: Edith Wharton’s Homage to H. C. Bunner’s New York Story Genre,” Linda Selman, Independent Scholar
2. “Ethan Frome: An Opera in the Making,” Caryn Block, Independent Scholar
3. “Methods for Digital Scholarly Editions of Wharton’s Fictions,” Damiano Consilvio, University of Rhode Island
4. “Art Comes to New York: Edith Wharton and the Early History of Art for the City,” Patricia Marshall, Siena College
Session 2-B
Communication Networks: Media, Publicity, and Gossip (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “The Transactions of the Upper Class in The House of Mirth,” Paige Sammartino, Simmons University
2. “‘Dirty Sheets’ and Lesser Authors: Gossip Journalism in The House of Mirth,” Marc Blanc, Washington University in St. Louis
3. “A Gossip’s Guide to New York: Epistemologies of the City in The Age of Innocence,” Katrin Horn, University of Bayreuth
Session 2-C
World War I and France (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “‘A Copy of Another Country’: England and France,” Walter Raubicheck, Pace University
2. “A Momentary Escape: Finding Innocence in 1919,” Alice Kelly, University of Oxford
3. “Stories of Cultural Loss: Edith Wharton’s literary production during and after WWI in relation to The Age of Innocence,” Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, University of Szeged
Special Session
11:30-12:15
Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Volume Editors Meeting (Gramercy Park)
Session 3-A
12:30-1:45
Teaching Wharton in the 21st Century: Roundtable 1 (Sutton Place)
Chair: Shafquat Towheed, The Open University
1. “The Custom of the Country,” Shafquat Towheed, The Open University
2. “Handwriting, History, and Social Media,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University
3. “Precarity,” Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh
4. “‘I see it, I like it, I want it, I got it’: Teaching Wharton and Popular Culture,” Emily Orlando, Fairfield University
5. “Relatability,” Isabelle Parsons, The Open University
6. “Relevance, Editing,” Carol Singley, University of Rutgers-Camden
Session 3-B
Edith Wharton’s New York: A Graduate Student Roundtable (Gramercy Park)
Chair: Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1. “Race and the Capitalist Archetype in Wharton’s The House of Mirth and The Custom of the Country,” Mary Elizabeth Chambliss, University of Alabama at Birmingham
2. “Examining the Male Gaze and Edith Wharton as Social Scientist in The House of Mirth and Gossip Girl,” Hayley Herforth, University of Alabama at Birmingham
3. “How Undine Spragg Did Feminism Her Way,” Candice Byers, University of Alabama at Birmingham
4. “Undine, Three Ancients Agree: A Brilliant Strategist and Tactician,” Ardell Fleeson, University of Alabama at Birmingham
5. “Lily as a ‘Skilful Operator,’” Rebecca Foushee, University of Alabama at Birmingham
6. “‘Nothing But Beauty’: Medicine and Metaphor in Twilight Sleep,” Sam Phillips, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Session 3-C
Undergraduate Panel
2:00-3:15
Session 4-A
New York City’s Parks & Gardens (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “‘Nature Occupied the Front Rank’: Horticulture, Urban Reform, and ‘Mrs. Mantsey’s View,” Nancy Von Rosk, Mount Saint Mary College
2. “Pastoral Cosmopolitanism: Central Park as an Ecocritical Threshold in Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country and The Age of Innocence,” Margarida Cadima, University of Glasgow
3. “‘The Old Garden-Magic’: Edith Wharton and the Language of Flowers and Plants,” Beth Sherman, City University of New York Graduate Center
Session 4-B
Adapting Wharton: Stage & Screen (Gramercy Park) Chair:
1. “‘I Believe My Play is Really Going Through’: Staging the Early Plays of Edith Wharton in New York City, 1899-1903,” Mary Chinery, Georgian Court University
2. “Wharton and the Age of Censorship: Literary Adaptation and the Hollywood Production Code,” John Nichols, Christopher Newport University
3. “Reconstructing The House of Mirth: The Wharton-Fitch Play and the 1918 Movie,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University
Session 4-C
From Old New York to New Istanbul: Allegories of Collection, Consumption, and Connoissuership (Gramercy Park)
Chair: Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Boğaziçi University
1. “Through the Looking-Glass Cabinet: Close Reading (in) The Age of Innocence,” Matthew Gumpert, Boğaziçi University
2. “Artifice of Love in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,” Ayşe Naz Bulamur, Boğaziçi University
3. “The Novel as a Museum: Collecting the Past through Objects in The Age of Innocence and The Museum of Innocence,” Hülya Yağcıoğlu, Zayed University, UAE
4. “Hegemonic Masculinity and Gender Performance in the Social Topographies of Edith Wharton’s New York in The Age of Innocence and Orhan Pamuk’s Istanbul in The Museum of Innocence,” Özlem Ögüt Yazicioglu, Boğaziçi University
3:30-4:45
Session 5-A
New York City & Taste (Gramercy Park) Chair:
2. “The Affective Qualities of Domestic Spaces in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,” Noriko Ishizuka, Doshisha University
3. “‘Sacred to gilding and discomfort’: Bad Taste in Edith Wharton’s New York,” Ailsa Boyd, Independent Scholar
4. “‘The Foremost Authority on Form’: Masculinity and Sartorial Identity in The Age of Innocence,” Avery Novitch, Fashion Institute of TechnologySession 5-BQueer Wharton (Gramercy Park)
Chair: Myrto Drizou, Boğaziçi University
1. “The Beautiful Death, Redux: Male Homoeroticism and ‘Morbid Memories’ in Wharton’s Later Fiction,” Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College
2. “‘It was impossible to analyze her anguish: Kate Clephane’s Closet and the Incitement to Discourse,” Shannon Brennan, Carthage College
3. “Friendship as a Way of Life in Old New York” Anna Girling, University of Edinburgh
4. Richard Kaye, Hunter College, CUNY, Respondent
Session 5-C
Edith Wharton & Disability Studies (Herald Square) Chair:
1. “Edith Wharton on Disability and Economics,” Karen Weingarten, Queens College, CUNY
2. “A ‘Kentucky Cave Fish’: May’s Blindness and Mind Blindness in The Age of Innocence,” Pilar Martínez Benedí, University of L’Aquila 3. “‘Yet what is deeper in a man than his tastes?’: Disabled Reading and ‘The Spark,’” Tim Dalton, City College of New York
7:00-8:30
Newland Archer’s New York (Crystal Ballroom)
Francis Morrone, Architectural Historian, New York University ____________________________________________________________
Friday, June 19th 9:00-10:15
Session 6-A
Reading Wharton: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Style (Sutton Place) Chair:
1. “‘Banished Without a Trial’: Lawyers and Legal Storytelling in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920),” Alicia Mischa Renfroe, Middle Tennessee State University
2. “Dot Dot Dot Dash: Punctuation and Coding in The Reef,” William Blazek, Liverpool Hope University
3. “A Backward Scroll: Examining Instapoetry and the Myth of Authenticity through Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and The Custom of the Country,” JuEunhae Knox, University of Glasgow
Session 6-B
Magazines, Print Cultures, & Readership (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “Middlebrow Gods and New York Intellectuals,” Amy L. Blair, Marquette University
2. “Contextualising The Age of Innocence in The Pictorial Review,” Lisa Nais, University of Aberdeen
3. “Edith Wharton’s Encounters with the Urban Picturesque in the City of Print,” Mark J. Noonan, New York City College of Technology
Session 6-C
The Age of Innocence New Centenary Essays Roundtable (Herald Square) Chair: Arielle Zibrak
1. “Innocence and Scandal in Edith Wharton’s Old New York,” Hildegard Hoeller, College of Staten Island
2. “Newland Archer’s Doubled Consciousness: Wharton, Psychology, and Narrational Form,” Shari Goldberg, Franklin and Marshall College 3. “‘You must tell me just what to do’: Action and Characterization in The Age of Innocence,” Gabi Kirilloff, Texas Christian University
4. “The Age of Dissonance,” Beth (Bich Minh) Nguyen, University of Wisconsin
5. “Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence, and American Individualism,” Carol Singley, Rutgers University-Camden
6. “‘Isn’t That French?’: Edith Wharton Revisits the ‘International Theme,’” Virginia Ricard, University of Bordeaux Montaigne
10:30-11:45
Session 7-A
Roundtable: The Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Discoveries and Surprises (Sutton Place)
Chair: Carol Singley, Rutgers University-Camden
1. Alan Price, Pennsylvania State University, Hazleton, nonfiction war writings
2. Gary Totten, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, travel writings
3. Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach, schoolroom decoration texts and gardening essays
4. Donna Campbell, Washington State University, dramatization of The House of Mirth
5. Virginia Ricard, University of Bordeaux-Montaigne, translations and Charles Du Bos
6. Paul Ohler, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, early short stories
Session 7-B
Intertextual Approaches to Edith Wharton (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “The Drama of Consciousness in The Age of Innocence and The Ambassadors,” Elaine M. Toia, SUNY Rockland Community College 2. “Imperial Focalization: The Art of Control in Edith Wharton’s The Old Maid and Nella Larsen’s Passing,” Amy Easton-Flake, Brigham Young University
3. “Bracketed Time: Wharton’s Revision of Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’ in Her Last Two Novels,” Veronica Makowsky, University of Connecticut
Session 7-C
Edith Wharton & 21st Century Writers (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “Inhabiting the House of Edith Wharton’s Fiction: Rewriting the Captive Woman in Deborah Noyes’s The Ghosts of Kerfol,” Indu Ohri, University of Virginia
2. “Wharton’s Continuing Literary Influence: The Work of Penelope Lively,” Carole Shaffer-Koros, Kean University
3. “‘she was learning how to make hats’: Negotiating New York City in The House of Mirth and Free Food for Millionaires,” Johanna X. K. Garvey, Fairfield University
Session 8-A
12:00-1:00 Luncheon (Crystal Ballroom)
1:15-2:00 Poetry Reading (Crystal Ballroom)
Irene Goldman-Price
2:15-3:30
Classical Reception in Edith Wharton’s Late Fiction (Sutton Place)
Chair: Myrto Drizou, Boğaziçi University
1. “Classical Reception and Edith Wharton’s The Marne and A Son at the Front,” Maureen E. Montgomery, University of Canterbury
2. “Alternative Homecomings: Edith Wharton’s Revision of The Odyssey in The Children,” Myrto Drizou, Boğaziçi University
3. “Edith Wharton’s Hudson River Bracketed: An American Classic,” Cecilia Macheski, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY
4. “Myth and the ‘Necessary’ Ending of Edith Wharton’s The Mother’s Recompense,” Rocki Wentzel, Augustana University
Session 8-B
The Writing of Scholarship: Integrating Productive Research with Teaching and Service
Chair: Mary Carney, University of Georgia
1. Donna Campbell, Washington State University
2. Mary Chinery, Georgian Court University
3. Meredith Goldsmith, Ursinus College
4. Paul Ohler, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
5. Emily Orlando, Fairfield University
6. Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow
7. Gary Totten, University of Nevada Las Vegas
Session 8-C
Edith Wharton on the Silver Screen (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “Of art, codes and transcoding: revisiting intersemiotic conversations in The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920) and Martin Scorsese (1993)” Françoise Sammarcelli, Sorbonne Université, Paris
2. “Gendered Spaces in Terence Davies’s rendition of The House of Mirth (2000)” Julia Sattler, TU Dortmund University
3. “Re-viewing Edith Wharton’s New York: a comparative approach to Martin Scorsese and Terence Davies’ adaptations of The Age of Innocence (1993) and The House of Mirth (2000),” Emmanuelle Delanoë-Brun, Université Paris Diderot
3:45-5:15
Session 9-A
Wharton, Chopin, and the Dawn of the Modern Era (Sutton Place)
Chair: Heather Ostman, SUNY Westchester Community College
1. “From Separate Spheres to Glass Ceilings: How Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Ruth Stuart Navigated the Turn-of-the-Century New York Literary Marketplace,” Kate O’Donoghue, Suffolk Community College
2. “‘Getting Away from Literature’: Pedagogical Experiments in (Re-)Serializing Wharton and Chopin for 21st Century Students,” John Staunton, Eastern Michigan University
3. “Catholicism, Divorce, and the Modern Age in Wharton’s Custom of the Country and Chopin’s At Fault,” Heather Ostman, SUNY Westchester Community College
Session 9-B
Edith Wharton and Elizabeth von Arnim (Gramercy Park)
Chair: Noreen O’Connor, Kings College
1. “Significant Space: Haunting in the Work of Edith Wharton and Elizabeth von Arnim,” Isobel Maddison, University of Cambridge
2. “‘The intersection between physical place and metaphysical idea’: Garden design and symbolism in the works of Edith Wharton and Elizabeth von Arnim,” Nezka Pfeifer, Missouri Botanical Garden
3. “Women of a certain age: Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep (1927) and Elizabeth von Arnim’s Love (1925),” Jennifer Shepherd, The Open University
4. “The Price of Transgression: Reimagining the Narrative Boundaries of Women’s Lives in Edith Wharton’s The Mother’s Recompense (1925) and Elizabeth von Arnim’s Expiation (1929),” Noreen O’Connor, Kings College
Session 9-C
Edith Wharton and the Lost Generation (Herald Square)
Chair: Lisa Tyler, Sinclair Community College
1. “The Glimpses of the Moon: Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Allan Dwan in Interim,” Sharon Kim, Judson University
2. “Waltzing Through Twilight: Flappers in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep (1927) and Zelda Fitzgerald’s Save Me the Waltz (1932),” Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland
3. “Somebody Had Blundered: Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Lost Time,” Caroline Chamberlain Hellman, New York City College of Technology
4. “‘Metropolitan Ink: Rumor, Scandal, and Visibility in the New York City of Wharton, Fitzgerald, and Dos Passos,” Kirk Curnutt,Troy University
5. “Homosexuality and Moral Corruption in the Short Fiction of Wharton and Hemingway,” Lisa Tyler, Sinclair Community College
7:00-9:30
Featured Roundtable (Crystal Ballroom)
Dale Bauer, University of Illinois: Chair
1. Carol Singley, Rutgers University-Camden, Edith Wharton: Matters of Mind and Spirit (1995)
2. Nancy Bentley, University of Pennsylvania, The Ethnography of Manners (1995) and Frantic Panoramas (2009)
3. Jennie Kassanoff, Barnard College, Edith Wharton and the Politics of Race (2004)
4. Parley Ann Boswell, Eastern Illinois University, Edith Wharton on Film (2007)
5. Emily Orlando, Fairfield University, Edith Wharton and the Visual Arts (2007)
6. Jennifer Haytock, The College at Brockport, Edith Wharton and the Conversations of Literary Modernism (2008)
7. Melanie Dawson, College of William and Mary, Edith Wharton and the Modern Privileges of Age (2019)
Followed by
Showcase of Wharton Scholarship (Crystal Ballroom) ____________________________________________________________
Saturday, June 20th 8:30-9:45
Session 10-A
Domestic & Metropolitan Spaces (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “A Mill of One’s Own: John Amherst’s Misappropriated Domesticity in Edith Wharton’s The Fruit of the Tree,” Jacqueline Bradley, Casper College
2. “‘New York society is a very small world’: Edith Wharton’s Regionalizing of the Metropole,” Nir Evron, Tel Aviv University
3. “Representing the Interior in The Age of Innocence,” Cheng Xin, Shanghai International Studies University
Session 10-B
New York City’s Built Environments (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “‘No Young Girl is Safe’: The White Slavery Panic and Edith Wharton’s Theatrical Spaces,” Yair Solan, Queens College
2. “In and Out of Place: Agency and the Built Environment in Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence,” Kristina Chesaniuk, Auburn University
3. “Architecture and Social Reality in The Age of Innocence,” Theodora Tsimpouki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
4. “Edith Wharton and the Bracketed Artistic Self,” Mindy Buchanan-King, College of Charleston
Session 10-C
Old & New New York (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “Dutch Doppelgangers: The Dutch Heritage of Edith Wharton’s Real and Fictional New Yorks,” Zoë Perot, Tufts University
2. “‘With her face turned homeward’: Readers, Writers, and Tradition in Old New York,” Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Independent Scholar
3. “Edith Wharton Returns to New York: The Mother’s Recompense (1925),” Gianfranca Balestra, Università di Siena
4. “‘A Map of Misreading’: Backward and Forward Glancing in Edith Wharton’s Final New York Story,” Daniel Hefko, Independent Scholar
10:00-11:15
Session 11-A
Teaching Edith Wharton in the 21st Century: Roundtable 2 (Sutton Place)
Chair: Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
1. “Reading in Three Dimensions: Using Material Culture to Teach The Age of Innocence,” Elif Armbruster, Suffolk University
2. “Teaching The Children in The Anarchist Tradition in Literature Course,” Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
3. “Students Abroad – in the Classroom: A Transatlantic Assignment on Edith Wharton’s ‘Roman Fever,’” Rita Bode, Trent University, and Sirpa Salenius, University of Eastern Finland
4. “Ecoliteracy and Edith Wharton: The Ecosomatic Paradigm and the Poetics of Paratexts in Ethan Frome,” Lisa Geriguis, Chapman University
5. “Modeling Addiction: Teaching The House of Mirth in the Context of Addiction Studies,” Brendan O’Donnell, Rhode Island School of Design
6. “Wharton Goes Online: Reimagining the Traditional Graduate Seminar,” Alicia Mischa Renfroe, Middle Tennessee State University 7. “Social Darwinism, Feminism, and Performative Identity in Wharton’s ‘The Last Asset,’” Pierre A. Walker, Salem State University
Session 11-B
Friendship, Recognition, & Literary Rapport (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “Econtransmutations:FallenNatureandEconomyinEdith Wharton’s and Gottfried Keller’s Rural Landscapes,” Monika Elbert, Montclair State University
2. “Minnie Cadwalader Jones: A Friend in Need,” Margaret A. Brucia, Temple University Rome
3. “Edith Wharton and Paul Bourget’s Literary Affinities in Outre-mer: Impressions of America and French Ways and Their Meaning,” Jose Fernandez, Western Illinois University
Session 11-C
Jazz Cultures & Bohemian Circles (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “‘Is New York Such a Labyrinth?’: Locating La vie Bohème in The Age of Innocence,” Joanna Levin, Chapman University
2. “Perpetual Flappers and Abandoned Children: Queer Modern Families in Wharton’s Late Fiction and Silent Cinema,” Margaret A. Toth, Manhattan College
3. “‘Poor Coral, how dreary!’: Edith Wharton’s Glimpses of a Future,” Susan Tomlinson, University of Massachusetts Boston
12:30-1:45
Session 12-A
Class, Mobility, & Place (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “Apex Dash and New York Dignity: Wharton’s New American Woman,” Kim Vanderlaan, California University of Pennsylvania
2. “‘Was It Love?’: Deferred Desire and the ‘Republic of the Spirit’ in Wharton’s The House of Mirth,” Trisha Brady, Borough of Manhattan Community College
3. “‘If I Can Find a Cab to Take Me There’: Ecologies of Place and Displacement in Custom of the Country,” Brian Fehler, Texas Woman’s University
Session 12-B
Walking the Streets: Mobility and Autonomy (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “Venturing Outside: Wharton’s Women and the Streets of New York,” Anne Marie Flanagan, University of the Sciences
2. “Mean Streets and Confining Spaces: Precarious Urban Lives in Wharton’s Early Fiction,” Rita Bode, Trent University
3. “How Does Innocence Age? My Backward Glance into Whartonian Literary History,” Kandace Mill Lombart, Independent Scholar
4. “Lily’s Acts of Resistance: Transgressing City Boundaries in Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth,” Victoria Chandler, University of South Carolina
Session 12-C
Material Culture: Objects, Fixtures, and Furnishings (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “‘Intolerable Ugliness’: The Material Culture of Wharton’s New York,” Elif S. Armbruster, Suffolk University
2. “Newland Archer’s Sexy Things” Melanie Dawson, The College of William and Mary
3. “‘Of Tufted Furniture & Gas Chandeliers’: Place and Space in The Glimpses of the Moon and The Great Gatsby,” David Leight, Reading Area Community College
2:00-3:15
Session 13-A
Mapping New York City (Sutton Place)
Chair:
1. “The Streets of New York City in Social Transformation: From The Age of Innocence to The House of Mirth,” Rita Zhou, China University of Geosciences
2. “‘The stifling intertia of the hotel routine’: Mapping out the Hotel-Life in Edith Wharton’s Fiction,” Anne Ullmo, University of Tours, France
3. “Searching for the Malibran: mapping New York in The Custom of the Country (1913),” Shafquat Towheed, The Open University
4. “Walking with Edith Wharton: The House of Mirth, The Custom of the Country, and The Age of Innocence from Text to New York,” Jun Quiang, University of York
Session 13-B
Landscapes, Regions, & Bodies (Gramercy Park)
Chair:
1. “Caught in the Current: Women, Water and Will in The House of Mirth and The Pit” Patti Luedecke, Western University
2. “Amputations on the dining table: severed limbs in ‘The Men Who Saved The World,” Isabelle Parsons, The Open University
3. “Old Maids and Old New York: Unplanned Pregnancy in Edith Wharton’s Later Fiction,” Martha Billips, Transylvania University
Session 13-C
New York & Abroad: Place, Nationalism, and Personal Identity (Herald Square)
Chair:
1. “‘It had all seemed so free and jolly and clever’: The Gods Arrive and Bohemian 1920s Paris,” Charlotte Rich, Eastern Kentucky University
2. “The Myth of ‘Desert Motoring’ in Edith Wharton’s In Morocco,” Stacy E. Holden, Purdue University
3. “Americans and Natives: Wharton’s New York and the National Fantasy,” Ana Schwartz, University of Texas at Austin
Session 14-A
3:30-4:45
Staged reading of “The Bunner Sisters,” written and directed by Linda Selman (Herald Square)
Session 14-B
Complete Works of Edith Wharton: Volume Editors Meeting
Optional (additional cost)
The Bowery Boys Walking Tour: Edith Wharton’s New York 3:30pm-5:30pm, Flatiron Building starting point
Guide: Carl Raymond ____________________________________________________________
Sunday, June 21st
Optional (additional cost)
The Bowery Boys Walking Tour: Edith Wharton’s New York 10:30am-12:30pm, Flatiron Building starting point
Guide: Carl Raymond
Optional (additional cost; travel not included)
Luncheon & In Conversation Talks The Mount, Lenox, MA
Details TBA
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