The Editor's Fence

71V THE EDITOR'S FENCE 1. ELT Seminar: The Aesthetic Movement (MLA, New York. Dec 1974ΤΊ Pending approval of MLA, the ELT Seminar to be held at the New York MLA meetings in Dec 197^ will be on the Aesthetic Movement. Karl Beckson (Brooklyn College, CUNY) will be Discussion Leader. We are prepared to consider papers of a general kind: attempts to define the subject as a response to historical conditions, as a reaction to the state of the arts by about 1880, as a philosophical stance, etc.; or discussions of the relationship of literature, painting and music. We shall also consider papers on individual authors or on several authors, such as Wilde, Pater, Symons, Beerbohm, Beardsley, and others. Papers should be sent to Karl Beckson, Department of English, Brooklyn College (CUNY), Brooklyn, N. Y. (11210). Mr. Beckson will be the first critical reader; he will then submit the papers to the staff of ELT for additional evaluations. The deadline is about mid-August, 197^. Acceptable papers will be published in ELT. XVII:4 (197*0. prior to the MLA meeting. Authors will be asked to summarize the highlights of their papers in five minutes or less at the meeting. In keeping with MLA rules for seminars and in order to allow for maximum discussion time, papers may not be read in full. 2. ELT Seminar: H. G. Wells (MLA. San Francisco. Dec 1975): Pending approval of MLA, the ELT seminar to be held at the San Francisco MLA meetings in Dec 1975 will be on H. G. Wells. William J. Scheick (University of Texas at Austin) will be Discussion Leadpr. The ASB volume on Wells, compiled and edited by William J. Scheick and J. Randolph Cox, will probably be ready for publication in I975 or early 1976. We are prepared to consider various topics, the following being some suggestions: Ideological Aesthetics in Wells' Later Fiction, Character vs Caricature, Wells' Use of His Sources, The Reflection of Contemporaneous Psychology in Wells' Works, Wells' Use of Christian Tradition, Wells' Short Fiction, Comic Techniques and Patterns, Women in Wells' Fiction, and others. Papers should be sent to William J. Scheick, Department of English, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas (78712). Mr. Scheick will be the first critical reader; he will then submit the papers to the staff of ELT for additional evaluations. The deadline is about mid-August 1975» or any time before then. 3. ELT Seminar: The Novel and Society: 1880-1920 (MLA. New York I976TÕ We are planning an ELT Seminar on The Novel and Society: 1880-1920: Butler, Ford, Galsworthy, Gissing, Wells, and Others. In due course we shall announce the Discussion Leader and other details. Among possible paper topics tentatively suggested are the following: Galsworthy and the Edwardian State of Mind, Gissing 's Failed Panaceas, Wells' Intelligentsia, Ford's Vision of Society (not the overworked narrative technique stuff), Butler's Economic Man, Views of Marriage, Working Class Fiction, and so on. ...