FYI . . . from the listserv on history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. -- Peg Wherry ---------- Forwarded message ---------- 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 sent to H-SHGAPE. Thanks. KL **************************************************************************** ** 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.