Monthly Archives: May 2014

Howells Society Panels at ALA this week (Thursday, 5.22.14)

Thursday, May 22, 2014 1:30 – 2:50 pm 

Session 4-J William Dean Howells & Ethical Values (Glacier: 2nd Floor)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College

  1. “A Hazard of New Entitlements: The Politics of Pensions in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Daniel Graham, University Connecticut-Storrs

  2. “Redemptive Realism: Liberation Soteriology in the Novels of William Dean Howells,” Andrew Ball, Lindenwood University

  3. “Howells’ Christian Faith in ‘A World Come of Age,’” Thomas Wortham, UCLA 

Thursday, May 22, 2014 3:00 – 4:20 pm 

Session 5-G William Dean Howells in the 1890s (Glacier: 2nd Floor)

  1. Organized by the William Dean Howells Society Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College

    1. “William Dean Howells, a Realist Poetics, and the Limits of 1890s American Democracy,” Patricia Chaudron, University of Buffalo
    2. “William Dean Howells’s Failed Utopia from the Feminine Narrative View,” Margaret Jay Jessee, University of Alabama-Birmingham

    3. “Our ‘Imperative Duty’: Why Teach Howells’s Novella Now,” Charles Baraw, Southern Connecticut State University 

 

Thursday, May 22, 2014 4:30 – 5:50 pm 

Session 6-L Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Olympic: 2nd Floor) 

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New Issue of The Howellsian Available

Howellsian Spr 2014–Vol 16 No 2

Pre-ALA Mini-Issue
Contents:

The 2013 Howells Essay Prize Winner:
Cristina D’Amico, “In Conversation with William Dean Howells’ A Traveler from Altruria (1894)……………………………….. 2

Howells Panels at the 2014 ALA Conference, Washington D.C. . . . . . . . . . . 8

Membership Information…………………………………………. .. 9