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Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:38:16 -0500
From: Kriste Lindenmeyer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Multiple recipients of list H-SHGAPE <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Proposals: Teaching American Realism and Naturalism

Editor's Note: Please respond directly to Thomas Dean at the addresses
listed
below.  Do not use the reply function since your message will then simply be
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KL
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CALL FOR ESSAY PROPOSALS FOR BOOK ON TEACHING AMERICAN REALISM AND
NATURALISM

Thomas K. Dean and Louis J. Budd seek essay proposals for _Teaching American
Realism and Naturalism_, a projected new volume in the MLA's Options for
Teaching series.  Intended as a resource guide primarily for college and
university instructors, the book will offer essays treating a wide variety
of
approaches and topics:  theoretical, analytical, cultural, and historical
background as well as practical suggestions for teaching relevant issues and
texts in the classroom.  The editors also hope the book will advance the
critical debate about American realism and naturalism:  their definitions,
canons, margins, and larger relationships to American and international
culture
of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.  Please send essay
proposals and short vitae by 15 November 1996 to either editor:  Thomas
Dean,
Department of American Thought and Language, Ernst Bessey Hall, Michigan
State
University, East Lansing MI 48824-1033, e-mail [log in to unmask]; or
Louis
Budd, Department of English, Duke University, Box 90015, Durham NC 27708.