2004

DEFAMILIARIZING WOOLSON:

Cooperstown/Rensselaerville, NY
October 28-31, 2004

REALIZING REPUTATION:  WOOLSON'S RENEWED PLACE IN PRINT
"'Very Truly Yours, C. F. Woolson':  An Update on the Letters of Constance Fenimore Woolson," Kristin M. Comment, University of Massachusetts/Lowell

"Learning to Listen to Connie:  An Editor's Lessons,"  Victoria Brehm, Grand Valley State University.

"Illness as Identity:  The Case of Constance Fenimore Woolson," Cheryl Torsney, West Virginia University

FAMILY INFLUENCES
"The Admired Aunt:  Woolson and Susan Fenimore Cooper," Sharon Dean, Rivier College.

"The Sounds of Social Hierarchy:  Narrative Volice and the Representation of Class in the Work of Susan Fenimore Cooper and Constance Fenimore Woolson," Michael J. Davey, Valdosta State University.

WOOLSON, WAR, AND RECONSTRUCTION 
"'Matches Morganatic':  The Civil War in Ohio in Story in Poem," Patti Capel Swartz, Kent State University/E.Liverpool.

Cultural Fictions of Southern Hospitality in Woolson's Southern Sketches," Anthony Szczesiul, University of Massachusetts/Lowell.

"Bruial, Memorial, and Forgetting in Three Woolson Stories:  A Metaphor," Elizabethada Wright, Rivier College.

"Woolson's 'King David': An Indictment of Racist Reconstruction,"  Carolyn Hall, University of Iowa.

LEGACIES:  WOOLSON AND BEYOND
 
"Two Lovely Ladies:  Constance Fenimore Woolson's "For The Major," and Willa Cather's A Lost Lady," Charlotte Goodman, Skidmore College.

"Lost in Translation:  From Woolson's "For The Major" to Grego's "Per il Maggiore," Edoarda Grego, University of Trieste, Italy.

"Puritans and Bohemians:  Women and Artists in the Roman Tales of Hawthorne, James, and Woolson, 1860-1882, Katherine Swett, The Brearley School.

"The Trouble with Women:  Woolson's Search for a Portrait of a Lady," Theresa Bolen, Independent Scholar.

"Constance Fenimore Woolson as 'Proto-Ecofeminist':  A Reading of Horace Chase,"  Kevin E. O'Donnell, East Tennessee State University.


Keynote Address:  "Speaking Truth to Power:  Woolson, Regionalism, and 'Simple Masculine Minds,'" Judith Fetterley, SUNY/Albany.

                                    


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