Announcements

17^ THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. ELT Seminar on E, M. Forster (ChicagOj Dec 1973)ι The seventeenth ELT Seminar, with Professor Frederick P. W. McDowell (University of Iowa) as Discussion Leader, will be held during the MLA meetings in Chicago. Professor McDowell will lead a panel of four Forster scholars in discussion. Although no papers will be read at the meeting, the four papers serving as a basis for discussion will be published in ELT. XVI¡ k (1973), scheduled for mailing to subscribers by end of November. The authors, who will also serve as Seminar panelists, and their papers are¡ Oliver Stallybrass - "The Abinger Edition of E. M. Forster" Alan Wilde - "Depths and Surfaces: Dimensions of Fosterian Irony" Bonnie Blumenthal Finkelstein - "Forster's Women: A Room With a View" Elizabeth Heine - "The Significance of Structure in the Novels of E. M. Forster and Virginia Woolf" 2. Seminar on Annotated Secondary Bibliographies {Chicago, Dec 1973): The second Seminar on Annotated Secondary Bibliographien, to be held during the MLA meetings in Chicago, will deal with the problems raised by the first three volumes (on Maugham, Conrad, and Hardy) published by Northern Illinois University Press and the several volumes (on Gissing, Forster, and Galsworthy) now nearing completion. The Seminar will concentrate on the planned threevolume project on G. B. Shaw. In the main, participants will be invited editors of the various volumes in the series and such contributors and potential contributors as can be admitted. H. E. Gerber will be Discussion Leader. All those who wish to attend should write to H. E. Gerber, Department of English, Arizona State University, Tempe, Az (85281). Attendance is restricted and subject to prior permission of the Discussion Leader. ANNOUNCEMENTS 1. People: Lionel Stevenson, after a year at the University of Houston, will be at the University of British Columbia in the Fall of 1973. Frederick P. W. McDowell (University of Iowa), who has completed the volume on E. M. Forster for the A. S. B. Series, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 1973-74 to work on a study of G. B. Shaw as artist and prophet. Frank Giordano, some of whose work on Hardy we have published in ELT, is moving from the University of Delaware to the University of Houston in September 1973. David A. Cook, formerly at Purdue University, will be at Emory University starting this Fall. 175 2. George Moore Thesis in Progress ι Horst Bischkopf is writing a Ph. D. thesis on "Die Abwandlung der Autobiographischen Form im Werke George Moores" (The Variation of the Autobiographic Form in the Works of George Moore). He plans to interpret Confessions of a Young Man, Memoirs of My Dead Life. and Hail and Fareweill Tn relation to traditional as well as to modern autobiographies and autobiographic novels such as James Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The thesis is under the direction of Professor Willi Erzgräber (Freiburg University). 3. H. G. Wells Conference ι The Sandgate Conference, Folkstone, Kent, 27 Oct 1973» will be on the theme H. G. Wells and the Twentieth Century. Papers may be up to 3,000 words and on a wide variety of subjects. Abstracts for discussion purposes only are required in advance ι papers will not be read but copies will be available for study at the conference ι papers will be considered for publication with authors' assents in advance. For details on attendance and accomodations, write Eric F. J. Ford, High Orchard, 125 Markyate Road, Dagenham, Essex (RM8 2LB), England. k. Conference of The Victorian Counter-Culture ι The Victorian Counter-Culture, an international conference sponsored by The University of South Florida, will be held in Tampa February 2?March 2, 197^· Interdisciplinary in nature, the U. S. F. conference will involve a number of exhibitions and performances as well as lectures and panel discussions. For additional information , please write or call Professor Willie Reader, Chairman, The Victorian Counter-Culture, Department of English, The University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (33620)ι telephone! (813) 97^-2431. 5. Seminart The Novels of John Cowper Powys (MLA, Chicago, Dec 1973)ι This seminar will be a sequel to "John Cowper Powysι Achievement and Reputation," conducted at...