Session Details

Saturday, 29 December

537. New Wives’ Tales: Reconsidering Arnold Bennett and the Modern at the Centennial of His Masterwork The Old Wives’ Tale

3:30–4:45 p.m., Acapulco, Hyatt Regency

A special session

Presiding: Robert Lawrence Squillace, New York Univ.

1. “Fine Writing and Illuminated Industry: The Old Wives’ Tale and Late Manuscript Culture,” Kurt M. Koenigsberger, Case Western Reserve Univ.

2. “‘The Vast Foundations of the Savoy’: Hotel Consciousness in The Old Wives’ Tale,” Randi Saloman, Yale Univ.

3. “The Old Wives’ Tale as Masterwork and Metonym,” Robert Lawrence Squillace

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