Call for Papers: Howells Sessions at ALA 2006

American Literature Association Conference 2006
Call for Proposals

Deadline: January 8, 2006

1. Howells and Women
We invite paper proposals that examine Howells's relationships
with women, broadly defined. Possible paper topics may include
Howells's own personal life, his fiction and criticism, literary
friendships, writings on marriage and sexuality, or editorial work.
Please send by January 8, 2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words
and copy of cv to Claudia Stokes at Claudia.stokes@trinity.edu or by
post to Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity
Place, San Antonio, TX 78212.

2. The Unexpected Howells
We invite paper proposals that examine instances of Howells's
life and work that diverge from what we would normally expect of him,
literary or otherwise. Possible topics may include politics, ghost
stories and occultism, utopian fiction, poetry, literary criticism,
sentimentalism, and sexuality, among others. Please send by January 8,
2006 paper proposals no longer than 500 words and copy of cv to Claudia
Stokes at Claudia.stokes@trinity.edu or by post to Claudia Stokes,
Trinity University, Dept of English, 1 Trinity Place, San Antonio, TX
78212.