Session Details

Sunday, 27 December

13. Literary Form and the Social: Victorian Poetry

3:30–4:45 p.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Linda M. Shires, Yeshiva Univ., New York

1. “‘So Great, So Pure a Spell’: Dreams, Performativity, and Lyric Poetry for Anne, Charlotte, and Emily Brontë,” Amy Christine Billone, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville

2. “Constituting Discontinuity in Victorian Poetry: Suspension in Robert Browning’s ‘Karshish,’” Anne McCarthy, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

3. “Hardy, Interrupted,” Linda M. Shires

For abstracts, write to shires@yu.edu after 1 Dec.

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