Viewing convention Program information from 2012

Tuesday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 307, WSCC

A special session

Presiding: Cindy Weinstein, California Inst. of Tech.

1. "'Can Fear of Fire Make Me Love?': Nineteenth-Century Apocalyptic Sentimentalism," Kevin Pelletier, Univ. of Richmond

2. "'Every Woman . . . Should Raise Her Voice': Rethinking White Women's Activism in William Wells Brown's Clotel," Leslie Petty, Rhodes Coll.

3. "Deemphasizing Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century American Culture," April Davidauskis, Univ. of Southern California

Responding: Richard A. Garner, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York

For abstracts, visit richardagarner.com/mla-2012-radical-sentiment-panel.

Subjects:

• General Literature – Literary Criticism and Theory

• American Literature – Before 1900

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