Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

115. American Sex

8:30–9:45 a.m., 202-A, Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century American Literature

Presiding: Nancy Bentley, Univ. of Pennsylvania

1. “Is Sex Everything?” Dale Marie Bauer, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “‘It’s Not the Tragedies That Kill Us, It’s the Messes’: The Couple, the Couplet, and Disappointment in Dorothy Parker,” Lauren Berlant, Univ. of Chicago

3. “Sex, Panic, Nation,” Bruce Burgett, Univ. of Washington, Bothell

Respondent: Eric L. Haralson, Stony Brook Univ., State Univ. of New York

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