MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT 2002 MLA


WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT THE 2002 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION, 27-30 December, New York City

[Note: although the MLA strictly enforces a rule that only those registered for the convention may attend sessions, it should be possible to obtain passes at the registration desk. Contact Florence Boos at mailto:florence-boos@uiowa.edu, and she will forward your request to the MLA.

Session 560: New Views of Pre-Raphaelite Writers and Their Works
Sunday, 29 December 2002, 2:30 - 4:45 p.m.
Concourse E, New York Hilton

  • Moderator, Florence S. Boos, University of Iowa
  • Joseph Bristow, University of California at Los Angeles, "Christina Rossetti's Sexual Memory."
  • Clare Douglass, "A Return to Sensation: William Morris's Prosodic Translation of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'The Tune of Seven Towers.'"
  • Roberto C. Ferrari, Florida Atlantic University, "Reconsidering Simeon Solomon, Then and Now."
  • Chiaki Kato, Keio University, Japan, "Faces as Twofold Text: Reevaluating the Rossetti Woman."

Session 752: The Arts and Crafts Movement: Nineteenth-Century Ideas, Twentieth-Century Effects
Monday, 30 December 2002, 12:00 noon - 1:15 p.m.
New York Room, New York Hilton

  • Moderator: Margaret Stetz, University of Delaware
  • Peter Betjemann, Princeton University, "Authenticating Decor: William Morris, Gustav Stickley, Martha Stewart."
  • Mary Catharine Johnsen, Carnegie Mellon University, "Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt as a Collector and Patron of Arts and Crafts."
  • Talia Schaffer, Queens College--CUNY, "Amateur Women's Crafts and the Victorian Crafts Tradition."
  • Kevin Swafford, Bradley University, "Another 'New Guild of Craftsmen': Morris, Muthesius, and the Deutscher Werkbund."

The Kelmscott Press--And More: An Afternoon with Fine Books
Saturday, 28 December 2002, 4:00 p.m.
The home of Richard and Pamela Estes: 1010 Fifth Avenue, New York

Noted bibliophile (and William Morris Society member) Richard M. Estes and his wife, Pam, have invited a small group of interested members to their home on the afternoon of Saturday, 28 December. Dick's wide-ranging and mouth-watering collection centers on the private press movement but also includes many other notable books. The library features all the works printed by the Kelmscott Press (including the Chaucer), an almost complete set of the Eragny Press, most of the important Ashendenes, many Doves (among them the Bible), Elston, and Golden Cockerell items, also volumes designed or printed by Bruce Rogers, Dard Hunter, and D. B. Updike. Earlier periods are representated by books printed by the Estiennes and by Bodoni, incunables, a couple of books of hours, fore-edge paintings, and illustrations by William Blake. Hors d'oeuvres and drinks will round out the visit, which promises to be a rather special treat.

Because of space and security concerns only fifteen visitors can be accomodated--and we need to know in advance who is coming.

To attend you must r.s.v.p. to Mark Samuels Lasner no later than the afternoon of Thursday, 26 December. The best way to reserve a place or places is to send an e-mail to biblio@aol.com, or, if that is not possible, by leaving a message at Mark's work number at the University of Delaware, (302) 831-3250.

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