Edith Wharton in London Conference

Edith Wharton in London Conference Southlands College, University of Surrey Roehampton 14 to 17 July 2003

Plenary Speakers

Hermione Lee (accepted) Janet Beer and Avril Horner (accepted) Terence Davies (invited -- confirmation pending)

Conference Papers

Dr. Ferda Asya Bowling Green State University (USA) Dual Sensibility in Anarchism: Revolution and Evolutoin in Edith Wharton's Later Fiction

Dr. Barbara S. Becker (USA) Cherished Friend/Dearest Adversary: Edith Wharton and Henry James

Dr. Annette L. Benert DeSales University (USA) Heartless Homes in the Works of James and Wharton

Dr. Jean Frantz Blackhall (USA) Journeying to Bear Mountain: The Inception of Ethan Frome

Dr. William Blazek Liverpool Hope University College (England) To the Front: Wharton's Artistic Engagement with World War I

Berry Bloomingdale Loyola Marymout University (USA) Society, Women and Marriage in The House of Mirth

Rita Bode Trent University (Canada) Edith Wharton: The "George Eliot" of her Time

Dr. Daniel Bratton Miyazaki International College (Japan/Canada) The Buccaneers and the English Leisure Class

Sharon Kehl Califano University of New Hampshire (USA) Shadows of North Africa and Modernistic Vision: The Racial "Othering" of Charity Royall

Dr. Donna Campbell Gonzaga University (USA) "It is a kind of exile, isn't it?": Hamlin Garland, Edith Wharton, & the Place of the Literary Expatriate

Dr. Lori M. Campbell University of Pittsburgh (USA) What Lies Beneath, From New York to London: Defining Society, Self and Other in the Fantastic Tales of Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde

Benjamin D. Carson University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (USA) "That Doubled Vision": Edith Wharton and The House of Mirth

Dr. Barbara Comins LaGuardian Community College/CUNY (USA) A Glance at "A Glimpse"

Joanna Cooper Temple University (USA) Ghosts of New England: Edith Wharton's Gothic Response to Progressive-Era Social Control

Dr. Linda Costanzo Cahir Centenary College (USA) Where did "The Age of Innocence" Go Wrong?: The Aesthetics of Literature to Film Translations

Dr. Victoria Coulson Selwyn College (England) Impersonality and Identification in Realism: The Vexed Friendship of Edith Wharton and Henry James

M. Richard Dunn (USA) Geoffrey Scott and Edith Wharton

Amy A. Easton Brigham Young University (USA) Wharton and James and Fictive Portraiture

Dr. Sarah Emsley Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford (England/USA) Virtue is its Humphry Ward: Edith Wharton, Mary Ward, and the Moral Best-seller

Susan Fanetti Saint Louis University (USA) Women on the Edge: Lily Bart, Maggie Tulliver,and the Disenfranchisement of the Unmarried Woman

Dr. Benjamin F. Fisher University of Mississippi (USA) "All [Weird/Disturbed] Souls": Wharton's Ghostly Tales

Dr. Dale Flynn University of California, Davis (USA) Edith Wharton in England: A Literary History in Pictures

Dr. Shirley Foster University of Sheffield (England) Garden Images in the Writings of Edith Wharton

Cristina Giorcelli University of Rome Three Italy Wharton and Malta

Dr. Meredith Goldsmith Whitman College (USA) Svengali, Rosedale, Freud: Jewish Masculinity in Wharton in its European Contexts

Dr. Jennifer Haytock University of Illinois at Springfield (USA) Dr. Merkle and Female Sexuality in Summer

Dr. Deborah Hecht Touro Law Center (USA) Edith Wharton: Representing Lawyers

Dr. Hildegard Hoeller CUNY, Staten Island (USA) Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France II

Dr. Lisa Jadwin St. John Fisher College (USA) Readerly Ambivalence in The Age of Innocence

Dr. Li Jin P.R. China Characterization of Women in The American and The Age of Innocence

Rosemary E. Johnsen Grand Valley State University (USA) Rosamond Lehmann: One of Edith Wharton's English Inheritors

W. Suzanne Jones University of Richmond (USA) The Relation of the Novelist to Daydreaming: Edith Wharton's The Buccanneersas Revisionary Memoir

Dr. Sharon Kim Judson College (USA) Edith Wharton's Engagement with Modernist Literary Epiphany

Dr. Pamela Knights University of Durham (England) The White Light of the Mind: Edith Wharton's Night Thoughts

Dr. Reiner Kornetta Teacher's College Ludwigsburg (Germany) A Database of Edith Wharton's Short Stories

Dr. Kristin Lauer Fordham University, Dept of English (USA) Gallery of the Damned: The Secret Agenda of Edith Wharton's Lovers

Dr. Sarah J. Littlefield Salve Regina University (USA) Female Friendship in the Memoirs, Letters, and Literature of Edith Wharton

Dr. Patricia Lopez University of Santiago de Compostella (See above: joint presentation with Reiner Kornetta)

Timothy John Lustig Keele University (England) Rereading The Age of Innocence: Anthropology or Sociology?

Dr. Anne MacMaster Millsaps College (USA) The Buccaneers as Subversive Novel in the 1930

Christine Mahady University of Pittsburgh (USA) Beyond Forces: Edith Wharton's Dialogue with American Literary Naturalism Dr. Susan Meyer Wellesley College (USA) "Crossing, Sir?": Art, England, and Henry James in Edith Wharton's The Reef

Dr. William M. Morgan DePauw University (USA) Summer, Wilsonian Neutrality, and the Language of Friendship

Dr. Radmila Nastic (Yugoslavia) Edith Wharton's Tragic Paradigm

Dr. Elsa Nettels College of William and Mary (USA) Wharton and Hardy: Creating the "Sense of Fatality" in The House of Mirth and Tess of the D'Urbevilles

Liz Nolan Manchester Metropolitan University (England) (See below: joint presentation with Teresa Saxon)

Dr. Michael Nowlin University of Victoria (Canada) Before the Country's Awakening": Mis-recognition and National Growth in "The Spark

Paul Ohler University of British Columbia (Canada) Social progress means a checking of the cosmic process": T.H. Huxley's "Evolution and Ethics" and The House of Mirth N

Dr. Julie Olin-Ammentorp LeMoyne College (USA) Wharton's War Elegies

Dr. Emily J. Orlando Tennessee State University (USA) "Pictures of Lily": Body Art in The House of Mirth

Monika Pacziga University of Kansas (USA) Women and Romantic Love in Edith Wharton and Gustav Klimt

Dr. Nels Pearson Tennessee State University (USA) Edith Wharton and Elizabeth Bowen Dr. Robin Peel University of Plymouth (England) Apart from Modernism: Edith Wharton and Politics

Elaine Pigeon Concordia University (Canada) Redrawing The Portrait: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth

Dr. Alan Price Penn State Univerity, Hazelton (USA) Wharton and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson: When Friends Become Mentors

Alicia Mischa Renfroe University of Tennessee (USA) "The Law of Its Little Life": The Role of Justice in Henry James's "What Maisie Knew" and Edith Wharton's The Children

Dr. Teresa Gomez Reus University of Alicante (Spain) Wharton's Legacy to English Women Writers: Moments of Similarity between "Pomegranate Seed" and Rebecca

Darcie Dines Rives University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (USA) Can this Woman's Home be Saved?: Gothic Ficatin and Edith Wharton's The Decoration of Houses

Dr. Deborah Robinson Roger Williams University (USA) (See above: joint presentation with Sarah Littlefield)

Karin Roffman Yale University (USA) Edith Wharton and the London Museums: Curators and Writers

Dr. Augusta Rohrbach Harvard University (USA) Lights, Camera: House of Mirth!

Dr. Laura Saltz Colby College (USA) Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France I

Judith P. Saunders Marist College (USA) Evolutionary Biological Issues in THE CHILDREN

Theresa Saxon Manchester Metropolitan University (England) War in Words: Edith Wharton and Henry James in World War One

Deborah Scaperoth University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) Undine Spragg as Symbol of the Maiden in the Unicorn Tapestries

Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros Kean University (USA) Nietzsche and The Custom of the Country

Dr. Carol Singley Rutgers University, Camden (USA) Edith Wharton and A.E. Housman: Literary Friendship, Common Threads

Allyson G. Stack University of Edinburgh (Scotland) "Beatrice Palmato" and Wharton's Theory of the Uncanny

Dr. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Holy Cross College (USA) Ghost Writing: The Spirit of Henry James in Wharton's "Mr. Jones"

Dr. Edie Thornton University of Wisconsin--Whitewater (USA) From Gibson Girl to The X Files: Refashioning Lily Bart, 1905-2000

John Tibbetts University of Kansas (USA) Edith Wharton's Ghostly Short Stories

Dr. Elaine M. Toia SUNY, Rockland Community College (USA) The Custom of the Country: Reflections and Self-Reflection

Margaret A. Toth Tufts University (USA) Cannibalism, Starvation, and the Female Body in The House of Mirth

Dr. Shafquat Towheed University of Nottingham (England) Edith Wharton and her London Publishers

Madeleine A. Vala University of Michigan (USA) Wharton's Sentimental Art(ists) and the International Scene

Anneloes van Gaalen University of Amsterdam (The Netherlands) "All the World's A Stage": Theatricality in The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence

Mirjana van Zeijderveld (The Netherlands) New York in the Novels of Edith Wharton

Dr. Maria das Gracas Gomes Villa da Silva Unesp-Universidade Estadual Paulista-Campus Araraquara-Sao Paul-Brazil (Brazil) Edith Wharton's "Xingu": An Exotic Poisonous Writing

Dr. James D. Wallace Boston College (USA) Wharton's Motor-Flight and the Cost of Connoiseurship

Mary Sidney Watson Oklahoma Baptist University (USA) Wharton's Declaration of Independence: The Contest Over the Imagining of Eliot

Dr. Frederick Wegener California State University, Long Beach (USA) The Forgotten "Awakener": Robert Browning in the Work of Edith Wharton

Deborah Lindsay Williams Iona College (USA) Not Dead Yet: Edith Wharton's Challenges fo the Literary World in Hudson River Bracketed and The Gods Arrive

Dr. Sarah Bird Wright University of Richmond (USA) Edith Wharton, Vernon Lee, and the Genius Loci

Dr. Cynthia Zaitzevsky Harvard University EDITH WHARTON AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE MOUNT, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS, 1901- 1911