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Reading
James
Who reads James? When? Where? How? Why? What
did James want from his readers? How did he read his own writings and those of
others? New work on the history, sociology, culture, psychology, even the
biology of reading has made these questions fresh. This special issue of the Henry James Review invites contributions
on all aspects of Jamesian reading.
Reading James can be, quite literally,
materially different, depending upon whether the reader encounters the text in
serial form, as volume from a circulating library, on loan from another reader,
as part of the New York Edition, in a fine binding or a Norton anthology or on
a website. And readers of James are various: writers, critics, theorists;
philosophers, art historians, historians. How do disciplinary needs,
methodologies, and assumptions shape such readers? Then, too, adaptation,
quotation, and translation can all be viewed as forms of reading. What commercial
considerations, practicalities, and formal requirements come into play? What
does it mean to read James in Tehran, in Beijing, in Paris, in London? What
about those times when James is (nearly) unread? Which James works have been
popular? Which neglected? What gets reprinted? When? Why?
Readers are, of course, shaped by James. His
criticism gives us theories of reading. James depicts readers in his fiction,
even as he manipulates those who read him. His metaphors can be alarming--he
speaks of catching readers and drugging them--and alluring: invitations to
dream together. For James, “The work is divided between the writer and the
reader”; both were parts he played avidly.
Contributions should be submitted in duplicate and produced
according to MLA style. Please enclose return postage with your
manuscript. One-page proposals or short
(10-12 pages) essays should be sent by March
1, 2013, to:
Susan M. Griffin, Editor
Henry
James Review
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
USA
E-mail: hjamesr@louisville.edu;
Reception Study Society
panels at the American Literature Conference, San Francisco, May
24-27, 2012
The
American Literature Association’s 21st annual conference will meet at Hyatt
Regency
in Embarcadero Center, San Francisco, on May 24-27, 2012 (Thursday
through Sunday). For further
information, please consult the ALA website at ww.americanliterature.org
or contact the conference director, Professor Alfred Bendixen
of Texas A & M University at abendixen@tamu.edu with specific questions.
Session
3-F Reception and Multiculturalism
Organized
by the Reception Study Society
Chair:
Vanessa Steinroetter, Washburn University
1.
“Race, Reception, and the national Book Award: The Case of Salvage the Bones,”
Molly Abel Travis, Tulane University
2.
“Reporting in Faith: A Reading of The Last
Report on Miracles at Little No Horse, by Louise Erdrich,”
Lydia Magras, Purdue University
3.
“Reception Study and the Contemporary American Short Story Cycle,” Matthew
James Vechinski, University of Washington
4.
“Between Communism and Black Power: Ellison and Morrison as Modernists,”
Phillip Goldstein, University of Delaware-Wilmington
Session
11-C Literary Reception and the American Civil War
Organized
by the Reception Study Society
Chair:
Philip Goldstein, University of Delaware
1.
“The Recovery of Readers: Newspaper Poetry and the Civil War,” Elizabeth Lorang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
2.
“Soldiers, Readers, and the Reception of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables in Civil War America,” Vanessa Steinroetter, Washburn University
3.
“Whitman’s Ethiopian Flag and the Anglo-Abyssinian War of 1867-8,” Nadia Nurhussein, University of Massachusetts, Boston