Thursday, January 10, 2008

Hawthorne Society CFP and Announcements

Got this over the transom from Leland Person and thought I'd do my part to spread the word.

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1) The 2008 Hawthorne Society summer meeting at Bowdoin College is scheduled for June 12-15, 2008.

2) We have extended the deadline for submitting paper and other proposals for the Bowdoin conference until January 30th. Here’s the “Call”:

Nathaniel Hawthorne: Starting Over

The Hawthorne Conference organizers offer this wide-ranging rubric to include such topics as: Hawthorne's new start at Bowdoin, his beginnings as a tale writer; his "new" career as a novelist; his new (and constantly renewed) reputation; his interest in the beginnings of things (biblical, historical, personal); his new friends; his sense of the "new" vs. the "old" world; his definition of the "new" woman--and new man ("New Adam and Eve"); Hawthorne and the New Romanticism; Hawthorne and the New Classroom; Hawthorne and the (new) State of Maine; Hawthorne and the (new) structure of allegory; and Hawthorne in the new (21st) Century.

Please send paper topics by January 30, 2008,to Sam Coale, 39 Pratt Street, Providence, RI 02906 or samcoale@cox.net

3) We announce topics for ALA 2008 and MLA 2008:

ALA
Teaching Hawthorne
Hawthorne and the Performing Arts

MLA
Hawthorne as Story-Teller
Hawthorne and Emerson

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