The Editor's Fence

213 THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. It's that time of year againi Subscription renewals for 1979 are due as ELT is about to enter its twenty-second year. Please note that subscriptions for 1979 have been increased 1 U.S. - $5.00; foreign (including Canada) - $6.00. Single copies and back numbers have also been increasedi U.S. - $2.00 each; foreign (including Canada) - $2.50 each. Recently increased first class postage has made our voluminous correspondence and our efforts to communicate with subscribers and contributors on an individual basis something of a luxury. Even our printer, who has shown unusual restraint during the past seven years, has found it necessary to increase his charges beginning with this number. 2. Division News; The MlA Division on Late 19th- and Early 20th-century English Literature will devote two meetings in New York to the topic "Writers as Letter Writers." The two sessions .will reportedly be scheduled back-to-back, with no implied priority. One session will be chaired by Marjorie Perloff (U.S.C.); the panelists will be C J. Rawson (Conrad), Catherine Stimpson (Woolf), and Calvin Bedient (Yeats); the respondent will be William Chace. The second session, subtitled "The Editorial Perspective," will be chaired by Jo Berryman (U.S.C.); panelists will be Stanley Weintraub (Shaw), Frederick Karl (Conrad), and Joanne Trautmann (Woolf). In addition, our Division and.the Division on 20th-century English Literature will jointly sponsor a Forum on periodization . As of this writing, the Forum will be co-chaired by Marjorie Perloff (U.S.C.) and Melvin Friedman (University of Wisconsin); panelists are expected to be Jackson Cope, Hillis Miller, Gayatri Spivak, and David Lodge. 3· Special Sessions at MLAi As of this writing, details on the programs of two special sessions are available; both meetings have been authorized by MLA and both should be of interest to ELT readers. George Gissing! Jacob Korg (University of Washington) will lead the discussion on the topic "George Gissing and Women." Panelists will be Robert L. Selig, Coral Lansbury, and John Halperin. Copies of the papers to be discussed will be available at the meeting. Oscar Wilde: Wendell V. Harris (Northern Illinois University) will lead the discussion on the topic "Pen, Pencil and Paradox: Oscar Wilde's Criticism Revisited." Panelists will be Jonathan Culler, Herbert Sussman, Bruce Bashford, and Richard Freed. ...