SCMLA 73rd ANNUAL CONFERENCE
November 3 - 5, 2016

Sheraton Dallas Hotel * 400 North Olive Street * Dallas, TX 75201

The Spectacular City: Glamour, Decadence, and Celebrity in Literature and Culture

Call for Papers:  Mark Twain:  The Gilded Age Exposed

Mark Twain's The Gilded Age reveals the corruption beneath the spectacular glitter of the period.  Mark Twain coined the phrase the Gilded Age for the latter 19th Century and the generation in which he wrote.  It was marked by the Gold Rush to the western state of California, as well as the glorified American Eastern Culture of the Literati, the very rich, and the very famous.  He even wrote of the First Families of Virginia who migrated west of the Mississippi and held the positions of power in the burgeoning frontier.  Because of the diversity of his writing, including fiction, travel writings and lecture tours, his ideas encompass these American dreams of glamour, decadence and celebrity.  Please submit your abstracts or papers regarding these ideas by February 1, 2016 to Carolyn Leutzinger Richey via email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> or by regular mail to:
Carolyn Leutzinger Richey
Tarleton State University
Department of English and Languages
Box T-0300
Stephenville, TX 76402


Because this is a special session which I am trying to establish as a regular session on Mark Twain, I encourage all of you to consider sending an abstract or paper.  I realize that there is a conflict with the SAMLA Conference, but there's room for us all!

Thanks,

Carolyn


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Carolyn Leutzinger Richey
Tarleton State University
Department of English and Languages
Office:  OAG334
Box T-0-300
254-968-9511
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