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The Women
Thirty years ago, the new fields of Women’s Studies and Feminist Criticism looked with interest at the fiction of Henry James. For many, his work offered an exception to the general misogyny of American male writing; for others, the Master’s oeuvre was irredeemably patriarchal. Those early studies re-oriented our critical understandings of Henry James. Recent archival, biographical, critical, and creative work have again shifted how we understand James’s life and writing and re-opened this topic. The Fall 2010 special issue of the Henry James Review seeks to explore, broadly, how we read James with women in the twenty-first century.
Some possible topics include:
● Women’s Studies’ Henry James vs. Gender Studies’ Henry James
● Letters to, from, and about women
● Women’s love, loving women
● Female bodies: beauty, sex, motherhood, health, disability
● James and female writers: predecessors, contemporaries, and followers; borrowings, criticism, influence, depictions
● Women artists’ James/James’s women artists: depiction, criticism, translation
● Fashion, clothing, interior decoration, objects
● Gendered politics: suffrage, nationalism, feminism, the law
● Women and money: work, consumption, inheritance, gifts, ownership, commodification
● Actresses: depictions, correspondence, casting, performances
● Hospitality: hostesses, salons, visits, parties
● Female family: mothers, sisters, aunts, nieces
Contributions should be submitted in duplicate and produced according to MLA style. Please enclose a cover letter identifying your
manuscript as a Forum submission. Also include return postage. One-page proposals or short (10-12 pages) essays should be sent by March 1, 2010, to:
Susan M. Griffin, Editor
Henry James Review
Department of English
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
USA
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New Bonnie Books, 2010
A Rhetoric of Style, Barry Brummett
Action Research and New Media, Hearn, Tacchi, Foth, & Lennie
Available Means: An Anthology of Women's Rhetoric(s), Ritchie & Ronald, Eds.
Community Literacy and the Rhetoric of Public Engagement, Linda Flower
Digital Literacies: Concepts, Policies and Practices, Lankshear & Knobel, Eds.
Disability and the Teaching of Writing: A Critical Sourcebook, Lewiecki-Wilson & Brueggemann
Eyes on the Ought To Be: What We Teach When We Teach About Literacy, Kirk Branch
girls, feminism, and grassroots literacies: Activisn in the GirlZone, Mary P. Sheridan-Rabideau
Innovative Approaches to Teaching Technical Communication, Bridgeford, Kitilong, & Selfe, Eds.
Liberating Language: Sites of Rhetorical Education in 19th Century Black America, Shirley Wilson Logan
Making New Media: Creative Production and Digital Literacies, Andrew Burn
Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Literacy Research (Second Edition), Beach, Green, Kamil, & Shanahan, Eds.
Participation and Power: Civic Discourse in Environmental Policy Decisions, W. Michele Simmons
Qualitative Research in Technical Communication, Conklin & Hayhoe, Eds.
Re-Mapping Narrative: Technology's Impact on the Way We Write, Pagnucci & Mauriello
Representations: Doing Asian American Rhetoric, Mao & Young, Eds.
Shimmering Literacies: Popular Culture and Reading & Writing Online, Bronwyn T. Williams
The Idea of a Writing Laboratory, Neal Lerner
The Language of New Media Design: Theory and Practice, Martinec & van Leeuwen
The Rhetoric of the New Political Documentary, Benson & Snee, Eds.
The Way Literacy Lives: Rhetorical Dexterity and Basic Writing Instruction, Shannon Carter
Who Owns This Text? Plagiarism, Authorship, and Disciplinary Cultures, Haviland & Mullin, Eds.
A Writer Teaches Writing (Revised Second Edition), Donald M. Murray
Writing Conventions, Lu & Horner
Case Studies for Quantitative Reasoning: A Casebook of Media Articles, Madison, Boersma,Diefenderfer, Dingman, Eds.
The Norton Book of Composition Studies, edited by Susan Miller.
