The UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library are pleased to announce

The Fin-de-Siècle Poem

 

Conference Program

Friday, February 8, 2002

9.30 a.m. • coffee 10.00 a.m. • session 1

 

Joseph Bristow, UCLA Introduction

Jerusha McCormack, University College Dublin

Tragic Generation: Towards a Definition of the 1890s Poem

Jerome J. McGann, University of Virginia; Royal Holloway, University of London

Herbert Horne’s Diversi Colores

12:00 noon • lunch

2.00 p.m. • session 2

Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University

A “somewhat unstrung” Woman Poet: Masks, Perversity, and Print Culture’s Role in Poems by “Graham R. Tomson”/Rosamund Marriott Watson

Linda Hunt Beckman, Ohio University

Amy Levy: Two Poems

Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck College, University of London

“Neurasthenia” by A. Mary F. Robinson

4.15 p.m. • reception

Saturday, February 9, 2002

10.00 a.m. • coffee

10.30 a.m. • session 3

Tricia Lootens, University of Georgia

Alien Homelands: Kipling, Toru Dutt, and the Poetry of Empire

David G. Riede, Ohio State University

Mummies and Decadence

12:00 noon • lunch

2.00 p.m. • session 4

Holly Laird, University of Tulsa

What’s in a Name or Two? Michael Field—Getting beyond the Nature/Culture Debate

Marion Thain, University of Birmingham

Performing Authorship: “Michael Field” and the Construction of Poetic Identity

Julia F. Saville, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Poetic Imaging of Michael Field


Registration

The Fin de Siècle Poem February 8–9, 2002: Registration deadline: February 1, 2002.

Space at the Clark is limited and registration closes when capacity is reached.

Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with id: no charge; others: $25

Fees cover lunches and refreshments, and advance mailing of poems to be discussed. (Please note that poems will not be posted to the Center’s website.)

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Mail this form, or a copy, and your check (payable to UC Regents) to the Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies 310 Royce Hall, UCLA Box 951404 Los Angeles, California 90095-1404

Campus mail code: 140403

The Clark Library is located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles, one block east of Arlington Avenue, two blocks south of the Santa Monica Freeway.

Please call a week ahead to arrange for wheelchair access


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