Session Details

Thursday, 06 January

149. Form, Genre, and Judgment: Law and Literature beyond New Historicism

5:15–6:30 p.m., Olympic III, J. W. Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Eden Osucha, Bates Coll.

1. “Unspeakable Crime and Literary Judgment: ‘Alice Doane’s Appeal,’” Caleb Smith, Yale Univ.

2. “‘Suddenly, Long Afterward’: Untimely Justice in Edith Wharton’s Ghosts,” Eden Osucha

3. “Made for Love: Olive Chancellor, Henry James, Oscar Wilde,” Peter M. Coviello, Bowdoin Coll.

Respondent: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale Univ.

For papers, write to eosucha@gmail.com after 15 Dec.

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