Session Details

Sunday, 27 December

80. “The Death of the Heart”? Emotion, Affect, and Postwar Literature

7:00–8:15 p.m., 202-A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century English Literature

Presiding: Joseph Allen Boone, Univ. of Southern California

1. “Telling It to Strangers: Anger, Evasion, and Form in Postwar Feminist Fiction,” Kate Flint, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

2. “Capturing Emptiness: Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen’s Postwar Fiction,” Patricia Laurence, City Coll., City Univ. of New York

3. “Birth of the Heart: Intermodernism and the Postwar Novel of Tears,” Kristin B. Bluemel, Monmouth Univ.

4. “The Stranger Spark: The Condensation of Affect,” Marilyn Reizbaum, Bowdoin Coll.

For abstracts, write to josephbo@usc.edu after 15 Dec.

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