Calls for papers
Call for Papers
The Henry James Society
American Literature Association Conference
San Diego, CA
May 21-24, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
Citizen James: Native, Nation, and Empire
The issue of citizenship has again come into sharp focus as migrants and refugees have met with violence and calumny around the world. In the last decades of his life, James witnessed enormous transformations in social and political identifications because of war, migration, and colonization. In the end, he changed his own national allegiance. This topic invites a re-consideration of his fiction and non-fiction as they address questions about conflicting identities and loyalty to a state open to criticism. These topics are suggestions, but other approaches to the subject are invited.
A Small Boy and Others: Henry James and the Child
Children appear in James’s fiction in many different kinds of roles, from the annoying little brother in Daisy Miller to the impressionable girl of What Maisie Knew. He also wrote extensively about his own childhood and those of his siblings. None of these writings are, however, for child readers, unlike the work of Lewis Carroll or Robert Louis Stevenson or Mark Twain or Louisa May Alcott. What opportunities does James find in his representations of children? How does the development of his late style affect these possibilities? These topics are suggestions, but other approaches to the subject are invited.
Please send 250 word proposals to Beverly_Haviland@Brown.edu and Sarah.Wadsworth@Marquette.edu by JANUARY 5, 2020. Please note if you will have AV requirements.
The Henry James Society
American Literature Association Conference
San Diego, CA
May 21-24, 2020
CALL FOR PAPERS
Citizen James: Native, Nation, and Empire
The issue of citizenship has again come into sharp focus as migrants and refugees have met with violence and calumny around the world. In the last decades of his life, James witnessed enormous transformations in social and political identifications because of war, migration, and colonization. In the end, he changed his own national allegiance. This topic invites a re-consideration of his fiction and non-fiction as they address questions about conflicting identities and loyalty to a state open to criticism. These topics are suggestions, but other approaches to the subject are invited.
- The International theme reconsidered
- Citizenship and immigration
- Imperial ambitions and actions in the US and UK
- Expatriates and refugees
- Capital in the Gilded Age
A Small Boy and Others: Henry James and the Child
Children appear in James’s fiction in many different kinds of roles, from the annoying little brother in Daisy Miller to the impressionable girl of What Maisie Knew. He also wrote extensively about his own childhood and those of his siblings. None of these writings are, however, for child readers, unlike the work of Lewis Carroll or Robert Louis Stevenson or Mark Twain or Louisa May Alcott. What opportunities does James find in his representations of children? How does the development of his late style affect these possibilities? These topics are suggestions, but other approaches to the subject are invited.
- Representations of the child in the tales and novels
- Comparisons of James’s child characters with the work of his predecessors and/or contemporaries
- The Victorian child and the American girl
- Autobiographical writings
- The James children in the works of other members of the family
Please send 250 word proposals to Beverly_Haviland@Brown.edu and Sarah.Wadsworth@Marquette.edu by JANUARY 5, 2020. Please note if you will have AV requirements.
The Midwest Modern Language Association
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
Annual Conference, Chicago
November 14-17, 2019
Call for Papers 2019
The Henry James Society seeks proposals on the conference theme of “Duality, Doubles and Doppelgänger”as it relates to the life and/or works of Henry James.
Topics could include, but are by no means limited to:
- Doubles, doppelgängers, brothers, twins, mirror images, hauntings
- Identity, transcultural identity, psychology studies, cultural studies, literary criticism, gender studies
- Film and operatic adaptations of James’s fictions
- Duality in pedagogy, doubles in the classroom (the professor’s persona, teaching Gothic and other generic doubles and duplicities, the student-teacher relationship/dichotomy, teaching with various methods, digital teaching, hybrid and on-line teaching vs face-to-face; the use of avatars)
- Double-meanings (linguistics, semantics, multiple interpretations)
- Duality of texts and parataxis
- Double entendre: humor, jokes, dark humor, all aspects of laughter (laughter as a social construct, laughter as a cultural construct)
- Translations and translators (translating double meaning, cross-cultural interpretation, choosing the right word, translating the word vs translating the idea)
- Reproductions, mass productions, copies, reproducing the written word (printing press, typewriter, consumerism, capitalism)