MORRIS SOCIETY SESSIONS AT 2006 MLA


The Morris Society is sponsoring two sessions at the MLA 2006, to take place December 28-30, 2006, Philadephia, PA.

Thursday, 28 December

MLA Convention Session 190. Pre-Raphaelitism and the World of Victorian Art

12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott 406

Program arranged by the William Morris Society

  • Presiding: Mark Samuels Lasner, Univ. of Delaware Library
  • “Eve, Pandora, and the Woman Question in Pre-Raphaelite Art,” Jude V. Nixon, Oakland Univ.
  • “Strong Travailing: Elizabeth Siddal, Women’s Vision, and Female Labor,” Jill R. Ehnenn, Appalachian State Univ.
  • “Pre-Raphaelitism, Virginia Woolf, and Her Family,” Evelyn Harris Haller, Doane Coll.
  • “‘No Life Is Complete without Vice, and Technique’: Late Victorian Reception of Pictorial Form,” Andrew Marvick, Southern Utah Univ.
1:30 p.m. Annual Meeting of the Society, to follow immediately, with election of the governing committee

2:00 p.m. Governing committee meeting

Franklin Inn Club, 205 S. Camac St. (six short blocks south from the MLA)

5:30 p.m. Drinks party and book launch for Bound for the 1890s: Essays on Writing and Publishing in Honor of James G. Nelson. Nelson is a member of the Society, as are four of the contributors to the volume.

6:30 p.m. Dinner, $25.00 per person.

Please rsvp to MARK SAMUELS LASNER so we know how many will attend, 302-831-3250, marksl @ udel.edu.

Saturday, 30 December

MLA Convention Session 722. Morris and Gender

12:00 noon – 1:15 p.m., Philadelphia Marriott Grand Ballroom Salon K

Program arranged by the William Morris Society

  • Presiding: Florence S. Boos, Univ. of Iowa
  • “Revisiting the Garden: Fruit and Sexual Expression in the Work of William Morris,” David Faldet, Luther Coll.
  • “Pygmalion Swoons: The Aesthetics of Subjection in Pater, Morris, and Wilde,” Mia McIver, Univ. of California, Irvine
  • “Beyond Gender: Wordsworth’s ‘The White Doe of Rylstone’ and Morris’s Love Is Enough,” Sharon A. McGrady, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
  • “Morris’s Polyvalent Women: Sexual Violence and the Dramatic Monologue,” Florence S. Boos

For copies of abstracts, write to florence-boos @ uiowa.edu after 15 Nov 2006.

MLA topics for 2007

In order for interested members and others to plan ahead, we are also announcing the session topics for 2007: "Morris as Metatext: Editions/Printforms/Illustrations" and "The Pre-Raphaelite Family."

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