<p>Edith Wharton in London Conference Southlands College, University of Surrey Roehampton 14 to 17 July 2003</p><p>Plenary Speakers</p><p>Hermione Lee (accepted) Janet Beer and Avril Horner (accepted) Terence Davies (invited -- confirmation pending)</p><p>Conference Papers</p><p>Dr. Ferda Asya Bowling Green State University (USA) Dual Sensibility in Anarchism: Revolution and Evolutoin in Edith Wharton's Later Fiction</p><p>Dr. Barbara S. Becker (USA) Cherished Friend/Dearest Adversary: Edith Wharton and Henry James</p><p>Dr. Annette L. Benert DeSales University (USA) Heartless Homes in the Works of James and Wharton</p><p>Dr. Jean Frantz Blackhall (USA) Journeying to Bear Mountain: The Inception of Ethan Frome</p><p>Dr. William Blazek Liverpool Hope University College (England) To the Front: Wharton's Artistic Engagement with World War I</p><p>Berry Bloomingdale Loyola Marymout University (USA) Society, Women and Marriage in The House of Mirth</p><p>Rita Bode Trent University (Canada) Edith Wharton: The "George Eliot" of her Time</p><p>Dr. Daniel Bratton Miyazaki International College (Japan/Canada) The Buccaneers and the English Leisure Class</p><p>Sharon Kehl Califano University of New Hampshire (USA) Shadows of North Africa and Modernistic Vision: The Racial "Othering" of Charity Royall</p><p>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</p><p>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</p><p>Benjamin D. Carson University of Nebraska -- Lincoln (USA) "That Doubled Vision": Edith Wharton and The House of Mirth</p><p>Dr. Barbara Comins LaGuardian Community College/CUNY (USA) A Glance at "A Glimpse"</p><p>Joanna Cooper Temple University (USA) Ghosts of New England: Edith Wharton's Gothic Response to Progressive-Era Social Control</p><p>Dr. Linda Costanzo Cahir Centenary College (USA) Where did "The Age of Innocence" Go Wrong?: The Aesthetics of Literature to Film Translations</p><p>Dr. Victoria Coulson Selwyn College (England) Impersonality and Identification in Realism: The Vexed Friendship of Edith Wharton and Henry James</p><p>M. Richard Dunn (USA) Geoffrey Scott and Edith Wharton</p><p>Amy A. Easton Brigham Young University (USA) Wharton and James and Fictive Portraiture</p><p>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</p><p>Susan Fanetti Saint Louis University (USA) Women on the Edge: Lily Bart, Maggie Tulliver,and the Disenfranchisement of the Unmarried Woman</p><p>Dr. Benjamin F. Fisher University of Mississippi (USA) "All [Weird/Disturbed] Souls": Wharton's Ghostly Tales</p><p>Dr. Dale Flynn University of California, Davis (USA) Edith Wharton in England: A Literary History in Pictures</p><p>Dr. Shirley Foster University of Sheffield (England) Garden Images in the Writings of Edith Wharton</p><p>Cristina Giorcelli University of Rome Three Italy Wharton and Malta</p><p>Dr. Meredith Goldsmith Whitman College (USA) Svengali, Rosedale, Freud: Jewish Masculinity in Wharton in its European Contexts</p><p>Dr. Jennifer Haytock University of Illinois at Springfield (USA) Dr. Merkle and Female Sexuality in Summer</p><p>Dr. Deborah Hecht Touro Law Center (USA) Edith Wharton: Representing Lawyers</p><p>Dr. Hildegard Hoeller CUNY, Staten Island (USA) Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France II</p><p>Dr. Lisa Jadwin St. John Fisher College (USA) Readerly Ambivalence in The Age of Innocence</p><p>Dr. Li Jin P.R. China Characterization of Women in The American and The Age of Innocence</p><p>Rosemary E. Johnsen Grand Valley State University (USA) Rosamond Lehmann: One of Edith Wharton's English Inheritors</p><p>W. Suzanne Jones University of Richmond (USA) The Relation of the Novelist to Daydreaming: Edith Wharton's The Buccanneersas Revisionary Memoir</p><p>Dr. Sharon Kim Judson College (USA) Edith Wharton's Engagement with Modernist Literary Epiphany</p><p>Dr. Pamela Knights University of Durham (England) The White Light of the Mind: Edith Wharton's Night Thoughts</p><p>Dr. Reiner Kornetta Teacher's College Ludwigsburg (Germany) A Database of Edith Wharton's Short Stories</p><p>Dr. Kristin Lauer Fordham University, Dept of English (USA) Gallery of the Damned: The Secret Agenda of Edith Wharton's Lovers</p><p>Dr. Sarah J. Littlefield Salve Regina University (USA) Female Friendship in the Memoirs, Letters, and Literature of Edith Wharton</p><p>Dr. Patricia Lopez University of Santiago de Compostella (See above: joint presentation with Reiner Kornetta)</p><p>Timothy John Lustig Keele University (England) Rereading The Age of Innocence: Anthropology or Sociology?</p><p>Dr. Anne MacMaster Millsaps College (USA) The Buccaneers as Subversive Novel in the 1930</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. William M. Morgan DePauw University (USA) Summer, Wilsonian Neutrality, and the Language of Friendship</p><p>Dr. Radmila Nastic (Yugoslavia) Edith Wharton's Tragic Paradigm</p><p>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</p><p>Liz Nolan Manchester Metropolitan University (England) (See below: joint presentation with Teresa Saxon)</p><p>Dr. Michael Nowlin University of Victoria (Canada) Before the Country's Awakening": Mis-recognition and National Growth in "The Spark</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. Julie Olin-Ammentorp LeMoyne College (USA) Wharton's War Elegies</p><p>Dr. Emily J. Orlando Tennessee State University (USA) "Pictures of Lily": Body Art in The House of Mirth</p><p>Monika Pacziga University of Kansas (USA) Women and Romantic Love in Edith Wharton and Gustav Klimt</p><p>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</p><p>Elaine Pigeon Concordia University (Canada) Redrawing The Portrait: Edith Wharton's House of Mirth</p><p>Dr. Alan Price Penn State Univerity, Hazelton (USA) Wharton and Corinne Roosevelt Robinson: When Friends Become Mentors</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. Teresa Gomez Reus University of Alicante (Spain) Wharton's Legacy to English Women Writers: Moments of Similarity between "Pomegranate Seed" and Rebecca</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. Deborah Robinson Roger Williams University (USA) (See above: joint presentation with Sarah Littlefield)</p><p>Karin Roffman Yale University (USA) Edith Wharton and the London Museums: Curators and Writers</p><p>Dr. Augusta Rohrbach Harvard University (USA) Lights, Camera: House of Mirth!</p><p>Dr. Laura Saltz Colby College (USA) Narrative and the Problem of Seeing in Edith Wharton's Fighting France I</p><p>Judith P. Saunders Marist College (USA) Evolutionary Biological Issues in THE CHILDREN</p><p>Theresa Saxon Manchester Metropolitan University (England) War in Words: Edith Wharton and Henry James in World War One</p><p>Deborah Scaperoth University of Tennessee, Knoxville (USA) Undine Spragg as Symbol of the Maiden in the Unicorn Tapestries</p><p>Dr. Carole Shaffer-Koros Kean University (USA) Nietzsche and The Custom of the Country</p><p>Dr. Carol Singley Rutgers University, Camden (USA) Edith Wharton and A.E. Housman: Literary Friendship, Common Threads</p><p>Allyson G. Stack University of Edinburgh (Scotland) "Beatrice Palmato" and Wharton's Theory of the Uncanny</p><p>Dr. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney Holy Cross College (USA) Ghost Writing: The Spirit of Henry James in Wharton's "Mr. Jones"</p><p>Dr. Edie Thornton University of Wisconsin--Whitewater (USA) From Gibson Girl to The X Files: Refashioning Lily Bart, 1905-2000</p><p>John Tibbetts University of Kansas (USA) Edith Wharton's Ghostly Short Stories</p><p>Dr. Elaine M. Toia SUNY, Rockland Community College (USA) The Custom of the Country: Reflections and Self-Reflection</p><p>Margaret A. Toth Tufts University (USA) Cannibalism, Starvation, and the Female Body in The House of Mirth</p><p>Dr. Shafquat Towheed University of Nottingham (England) Edith Wharton and her London Publishers</p><p>Madeleine A. Vala University of Michigan (USA) Wharton's Sentimental Art(ists) and the International Scene</p><p>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</p><p>Mirjana van Zeijderveld (The Netherlands) New York in the Novels of Edith Wharton</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. James D. Wallace Boston College (USA) Wharton's Motor-Flight and the Cost of Connoiseurship</p><p>Mary Sidney Watson Oklahoma Baptist University (USA) Wharton's Declaration of Independence: The Contest Over the Imagining of Eliot</p><p>Dr. Frederick Wegener California State University, Long Beach (USA) The Forgotten "Awakener": Robert Browning in the Work of Edith Wharton</p><p>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</p><p>Dr. Sarah Bird Wright University of Richmond (USA) Edith Wharton, Vernon Lee, and the Genius Loci</p><p>Dr. Cynthia Zaitzevsky Harvard University EDITH WHARTON AND THE LANDSCAPE OF THE MOUNT, LENOX, MASSACHUSETTS, 1901- 1911</p>