Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

213. Romanticism and the Everyday II: The Ordinary

1:45–3:00 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on the English Romantic Period

Presiding: William H. Galperin, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

1. “Pins, Shoes, Bacon, and Toast: The Importance of the Ordinary in Byron’s Don Juan,” Emily A. Bernhard Jackson, Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville

2. “Romantic Constatives: Reporting the Weather, Noting the Self,” Anne-Lise François, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Living with Keats, Reading with Swinburne: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Poetics of the Obscene Quotidian,” Joshua David Gonsalves, Rice Univ.

4. “Austen, Cavell, and the Ordinary,” Eric C. Walker, Florida State Univ.

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