Session Details

Thursday, 30 December

749. Edith Wharton and Secrets

1:45–3:00 p.m., Independence Ballroom Salon III, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Edith Wharton Society

Presiding: Frederick Wegener, California State Univ., Long Beach

1. “Secret Sin and Hawthorne’s Legacy in Summer,” Monika Maria Elbert, Montclair State Univ.

2. “Forms and Venues of Sexual Concealment in The Reef and The Custom of the Country,” Kimberly M. Vanderlaan, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

3. “Racial Secrets and the Form of the Novella in ‘The Old Maid,’” Hildegard Maria Hoeller, Coll. of Staten Island, City Univ. of New York

4. “Secrecy, Privacy, and Intimacy in The Glimpses of the Moon and The Mother’s Recompense,” Irene C. Goldman-Price, Sugarloaf, PA

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