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Edith Wharton Society News

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AWARD WINNERS

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Congratulations to the Edith Wharton Essay Prize winners:

Both essays will be published in the _EWR_, vol 29.2:

First prize: Krystyna Michael (PhD candidate, CUNY-Grad Center)“A Break in the Continuity:” Chaos, Control and Wharton’s Commitment to Form:

Second prize: Katelyn Durkin (PhD candidate, UVa):The (Re)Production Craze: Taylorism and Regress in Edith Wharton’s Twilight Sleep

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QUERIES

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The following queries will be posted to the Wharton Society site. If you have any information, please reply to the list or to whartonqueries@gmail.com

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Hello:

I'm an author specializing in the history of espionage. I'm currently working on a project that has somehow taken me a bit far afield. I'm trying to track down the story that Edith Wharton intervened for Maj. Ralph Van Deman in his efforts to establish a military intelligence division during World War I. 

Denman's memoirs mention a "lady authoress" who traveled in the same social circles as the Secretary of War, Baker, but offer no other details. 

I was hoping that perhaps she might have made mention of Maj. Deman or Baker in her diaries.  The date would have been around 1917, just prior to America's entrance into WWI. 

Needless to say, any assistance you might be able to provide would be greatly appreciated. 

Best Regards,

Henry R. Schlesinger

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Dear EW Community:

I thank you in advance for your help,

Meg

{It is fine to list my information.}

Margaret Toth, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of English margaret.toth@manhattan.edu www.manhattan.edu

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MINUTES

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Minutes for the ALA 2013 Business Meeting: http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org/alamin5-24-13.htm

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EDITH WHARTON REVIEW

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New Volume of The Edith Wharton Review 

http://www.edithwhartonsociety.org/ewr.htm

Volume 29.1, Spring 2013

Teaching Cluster--Guest Editor, Gary Totten

Singley, Carol. "Change at Stake: Teaching Edith Wharton's Late Fiction." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 1-7.

Goldsmith, Meredith. "Twilight Sleep and The Children: Approaching Wharton's Late Novesl in the Undergraduate Classroom." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 7-11.

Kornasky, Linda. "Edith Wharton's The Glimpses of the Moon meets Geoffrey Miller's Spent." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 11-20.

Wentzel, Rocki. "Classical Reception in Edith Wharton's Late Fiction." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 20-32.

Saunders, Judith. "Unwritten Masterpieces." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 32.

Coit, Emily. Rev. of Edith Wharton in Context, ed. Laura Rattray. Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 33-34.

Dawson, Melanie. "Edith Wharton Collection Research Report." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 34-35.

Wierzbicki, Kaye. "Edith Wharton Society Mount Research Award." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 33-37.

Goldman-Price, Irene. "From the Archives: Two Letters from Harry Jones to Anna Foster about Wharton's Near-Fatal Illness." Edith Wharton Review 29.1 (Spring 2013): 37-39.

Edith Wharton Symposium Registration Open

Please note that online registration is now open for the Edith Wharton symposium taking place in Liverpool from 22 -23 August 2013. Everyone welcome! 

To register, please go to the site www.hope.ac.uk/custom and click the booking tab.

Dr. Laura Rattray

Edith Wharton Panels at ALA 2013

Edith Wharton Panels at ALA 2013

Friday May 24, 2013 8:10 – 9:30 am

Session 7-A Edith Wharton and Cosmopolitanism (Essex North East 3rd Floor)

Organized by the Edith Wharton Society

Chair: Emily Orlando, Fairfield University

1. “Edith Wharton’s Old New York: The Autobiography of an Expatriate,” Hildegard Hoeller, CUNY-CSI and the Graduate Center

2. “‘she was learning how to make hats’: Negotiating New York City in The House of Mirth and Free Food for Millionaires,” Johanna X. K. Garvey, Fairfield University

3. “‘I want a girl who doesn’t know what a Duke is’: The Buccaneers and Models of Cosmopolitan Thought,” Melanie Dawson, College of William and Mary

4. “Contexts Engendering Texts: Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence and Francesca Segal’s The Innocents,” Ferdâ Asya, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania

Friday May 24, 2013 9:40 – 11:00 am

Session 8-F Undine at 100: A Centennial Reappraisal of The Custom of the Country (Defender 7thFloor)

Organized by the Edith Wharton Society

Chair: Cecilia Macheski, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

1. “A Novel for All Seasons,” Susan Goodman, University of Delaware

2. “Gate-Crasher par excellence: Undine and the 'Aborigines' in The Custom of the Country,” Maureen E. Montgomery, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

3. “Finding Undine: Narrative Sources and Strategies for The Custom of the Country,” Laura Rattray, University of Glasgow

4. “Technologies of Information: Gossip, Self-Revelation, and Social Media in Wharton'sThe Custom of the Country,” Gary Totten, North Dakota State University



Session 10-P Business Meeting: Edith Wharton Society (Baltic 7th Floor)

Edith Wharton Symposium

Edith Wharton Symposium, Liverpool Hope University 22-23 August 2013

We’re delighted to confirm that the keynote speakers for this event will be Pamela Knights and Gary Totten.  Both, of course, are terrific Wharton scholars and speakers: Gary, the immediate past president of the Society and editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture, while Pam, who has published very extensively on Wharton, is perhaps best known as the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton (bios below). We very much look forward to their keynotes.

If you would like further information on the symposium, please contact us at: custom@hope.ac.uk or Laura.Rattray@glasgow.ac.uk

Best wishes,

Laura and Bill

 Pamela Knights is Honorary Senior Lecturer at Durham University. She is the author of The Cambridge Introduction to Edith Wharton (2009), and co-author of Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth (2006). Other publications on Wharton include chapters in The Cambridge Companion to Edith Wharton (1995), Edith Wharton’s The Custom of the Country: A Reassessment (2010), “This Strange Dream upon the Water”: Venice and the Cultural Imagination (2012), and Edith Wharton in Context (2012). She has also written introductions to editions of The House of Mirth and Ethan Frome, and is currently working on a new monograph for Palgrave Macmillan.

Gary Totten is Professor of English at North Dakota State University and immediate past president of the Edith Wharton Society.  He is the editor of Memorial Boxes and Guarded Interiors: Edith Wharton and Material Culture (2007) and a special issue of the Edith Wharton Review on “Teaching Wharton’s Late Fiction” (forthcoming Spring 2013).  He is the author of essays on Wharton in various journals, including Twentieth Century Literature, Journal of the Short Story in English, Pedagogy, Studies in American Naturalism, Studies in Travel Writing, College Literature, and the essay collection, Edith Wharton in Context.  He is currently researching The Custom of the Country and Dakota divorce culture, funded by a Beinecke Research Award from the Edith Wharton Society and a Gunlogson Fund Award from North Dakota State University’s Institute for Regional Studies.

Beinecke Award and The Mount Award Winners

Gary Totten, Professor of English, North Dakota State University: “Wharton’s Wild West:Undine Spragg, Medora de Mores, and Dakota Divorce Culture”

Sheila Liming, Ph D candidate, English, Carnegie Mellon University: “Edith Wharton and Modern Economies of Book Ownership”

CFP: Edith Wharton at SAMLA

"The Transatlantic Writer: Edith Wharton, Text, and Travel"
Edith Wharton Society Session at South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA) 2012 (Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, November 9-11, 2012)

The Edith Wharton Society invites papers that engage with this year’s South Atlantic MLA (SAMLA) conference theme: "Text as Memoir: Tales of Travel, Immigration, and Exile." We welcome a range of responses to this topic, including examinations of her travel writings, other non-fiction, fiction, and poetry.

Please send your 300-500 word abstract and a one-page CV as email attachments by 12 May 2012 to Mary Carney at mcarney@gsc.edu.

The 2012 SAMLA conference will be in Research Triangle Park, Durham, North Carolina, November 9-11, 2012. For more information on SAMLA, visit http://samla.gsu.edu/convention/convention.htm