WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY:
ACTIVITIES AT 1998 MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION CONVENTION

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SAN FRANCISCO, 27-30 DECEMBER 1998

Sessions
Kelmscott Chaucer CD-ROM demonstration
Reception at the Book Club of California

This year's Modern Language Association annual convention will take place 27-30 December in San Francisco. As usual the dates fall between Christmas and New Year's and, as usual, the William Morris Society in the United States has organized several events--sessions of papers and (to be announced later) a social gathering or museum visit.

Sessions of papers sponsored by the William Morris Society

Session 52: New Views of the Pre-Raphaelites
Sunday, 27 December, 5.15-6.30 pm, Green Room, San Francisco Hilton

Chair: Margaret Debelius, Princeton University

"Once More Into the Venusberg: 'The Hill of Venus''s Seven Drafts and a Secular Resolution of Morris's Epic"
Florence Boos, University of Iowa

"Domestic Rossetti"
Jessica Feldman, University of Virginia

"Christina Rossetti's Aestheticism"
Kathy Psomiades, University of Notre Dame

"New Views of the Old Views of the Pre-Raphaelites: Periodical Criticism in the Later Nineteenth Century"
Thomas J. Tobin, Duoquesne University http://www.octavo.com/collection/forthcoming.html#chaucer

Session 322: In Honor of Burne-Jones, Beardsley, and Morris: The Late Victorian Book
Monday, 28 December, 1.45-3.00 pm, Union Square 12, San Francisco Hilton

Chair: Bonnie J. Robinson, North Georgia College and State University

"Excavating The Sphinx: Towards an 'archeological' Poetics of the Book"
Nick Frankel, Virginia Commonwealth University

"From the Kelmscott: William Morris and Sire Degrevaunt"
Adela S. Roatcap, University of San Francisco

"At the Margins of the Garden: Fairies and Victorian Illustration"
Carole Silver, Yeshiva University

"Art Books and Books as Art"
Hartley Spatt, SUNY-Maritime College

Kelmscott Chaucer CD-ROM demonstration

Monday, 28 December, 3.30 pm
Octavo booth, exhibition hall, San Francisco Hilton

The Octavo Corproation invites members of the Society and anyone else interested to see a demonstration of their new CD-ROM version of the Kelmscott Chaucer. Please note that only those attending the MLA convention are allowed in the exhibit hall.

Reception at the Book Club of California

Monday, 28 December, 5-7pm
Book Club of California
312 Sutter Street, Suite 510
Tel. (415) 781-7532.

Members of the William Morris Society are invited to attend the publication party for menber Peter Stansky's new book, Another Book That Never Was. We welcome aslso members of the Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP). The Book Club is located about a five-minute walk from the MLA convention hotel.