Tracing Henry James:

An International Conference of

the Henry James Society

 

July 12-15, 2005

Venice International University

Isola di San Servolo, Venice, Italy

 

 

Program Schedule

 

 

 

Tuesday, July 12

9.15-10.30              Opening & Plenary 1—San Servolo (room 1E)

Alide Cagidemetrio (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia): “The Wings of the Dove: Tracing the Phantom of the Palace.”  Introduction by Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia).

 

10.30-11.00  COFFEE

 

11.00-13.00     Criticism (Chair: Peter Rawlings, Bristol UWE)—room 1E

Gro Frølund

     “Critical Footprints:  Tracing Jamesian Practice”

Matthew Peters (Cambridge University)

     “Hippolyte Taine and ‘The Art of Fiction’”

T. J. Lustig (Keele University)

     “Henry James and the Discourse of Culture”

                                    Michael Anesko (Pennsylvania State University)

“O O O that Ja-hame-sian Rag / It’s so elegant / So intelliGhent: Tracing Appropriations of The Master’s Aura in Modernist Critical Discourse”

 

11.00-13.00     Mutabilities of Representation (Chair:  Stuart Robertson, UCE, Birmingham)—room 1G

                                    Tamar Yacobi (Tel-Aviv University)

                                         “‘The Beldonald Holbein’:  The Artist’s Power and Its Risks”

                                    David McWhirter (Texas A & M Unversity)

                                         “James’s Taste”

                                    Sheila Teahan (Michigan State University)

                                         “The House of Criticism”

                                    Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (Aarhus University)

“Frontispieces and Other Ruins:  Thresholds of Interpretation in Henry James’s New York Edition of The Portrait of a Lady”

 

13.00-14.30     LUNCH

 

14.30-16.30     Queer Tracings (Chair: Celeste Goodridge, Bowdoin College)—room 1E

                                    Kevin Ohi (Boston College)

                                         “The Golden Bowl and Queer Style”

                                    Eric Savoy (Université de Montréal)

“Subjunctive Biography”

 

14.30-16.30          Venice and London; Ruskin and Pater  

(Chair: Clair Hughes, International Christian University, Tokyo)—room 1G

Stuart Christie (Hong Kong Baptist University)

                                         “The Princess Casamassima as James’s Great Venetian, Victorian Novel”

                                    Suzie Gibson (University of New England)

                                         “Henry James’s Venice:  The Great Waiting-Room of Europe”

                                    Tamara Follini (University of Cambridge)

                                         “Henry James Reading Ruskin”

                                    Jennifer Eimers (University of Georgia)

“‘Dead fact’ and ‘quick thought’:  Painting and Subjective Response in The Wings of the Dove”

 

16.30-17.00     COFFEE

 

17.00-18.30     Love (Chair: Greg Zacharias, Creighton University)—room 1E

Jonathan Warren (York University)

     “Making Love, Racketeering, Doing Justice; or, ‘The Sublime Egotism of Protection’”

Brenda Austin-Smith (University of Manitoba)

     “‘The sovereign charm of it’: The Prince, the Princess, and Imperial Desire”

Sigi Jöttkandt (Ghent University)

“‘That’s how I make them do as I like’: Contagious Loving and Maggie’s Homeopathic Magic”

 

17.00-18.30     Italian Hours (Chair: Anna Despotopoulou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)—room 1G

                                    Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University College)

                                         “‘A Saint’s Afternoon’:  James and the Idea of Italy”

                                    Anna De Biasio (University of Venice)

                                         “‘The catalogues are finished’: Travelling in Venice According to James”

                               

 

 

Wednesday, July 13

9.15-10.45       Public / Private (Chair: Susan M. Griffin, University of Louisville)—room 1E

Matthew Rubery (University of Pennsylvania)

     “Wishing to Be Interviewed in Henry James”

Anna Despotopoulou (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

“Haunted Enclosures—Ghostly Minds: the Private/Public Dilemma in the (Supernatural) Tales”

                                    Sanae Fujino (Keisen University)

“The Meaning of Henry James’s Stay in Italy from December 1886 to Midsummer 1887”

 

9.15-10.45       Jamesian Tourists in Venice (Chair Nelly Valtat-Comet, University of Tours)—room 1G

                                    Nikil Saval (Columbia University)

                                         “‘The Religion of Foreign Things’: The Wings of the Dove, Venice, Tourism”

Kathleen Lawrence- Traces (Boston University and the Smithsonian Institution)

                                                     “‘The Mere Vomitorium of Boston’:  Traces of Boston in Henry James’s Venice”

                                                Noriko Fujikawa (Tsuda College)

“Anti-Tourism and the Decay of Venice in Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove and The Aspern Papers”  

 

10.45-11.15     COFFEE

 

11.15-12.45    Architecture (Chair: Pierre Walker, Salem State College)—room 1E

Martha Banta (University of California, Los Angeles)

“Alberti’s Geometrics to Piranesi’s Choreographics: James’s Emotive Structures of Balance and Abyss”

                                    Victoria Coulson (University of York)

                                         “Prisons and Palaces:  The Architecture of the Imagination in Henry James”

                                    Phyllis Van Slyck (City University of New York, LaGuardia)

“Tintoretto, James and the Drama in the Picture: Some Notes on James’s Visual and Dramatic Architecture”

 

11.15-12.45     Three Faces of Venice (Chair: Collin Meissner, University of Notre Dame)—room 1G

                                    Keiko Beppu (Matsuyama Shinonome College)

                                         “Personal Venice:  Italian Hours”

                                    Hitomi Nabae (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)

                                         “Palpable Venice:  The Aspern Papers”

                                    Shizue Ebine (Ochanomizu Women’s University)

                                         “Imaginary Venice:  The Wings of the Dove”

 

12.45-14.15     LUNCH

 

14.15-15.45     Virtue (Chair: Sigi Jöttkandt, Ghent University)—room 1E

Anne Marie Flanagan (University of the Sciences in Philadelphia)

     “Men Without Pity:  Henry James and Ford Madox Ford”

Anne-Lise François (University of California, Berkeley)

     “‘Initmitable Examples of Virtue’ and the Jamesian Still Life”

Rory Drummond (Framlingham College)

     “‘And now to work!’:  James’s Professional Couples”

 

14.15-15.45     Venice in Early and Middle James (Chair: Tamara Follini, University of Cambridge)—room 1G

                                    Michael Halliwell (University of Sydney Conservatorium)

“James, Venice and Opera: Venice and Its Depiction in Operas Based on James’s Fiction”

                                    Christine A. McBride (Stanford University)

“Romantic Displacements: Venice as mise en abyme for the Plot of ‘The Aspern Papers’”

                                    Annick Duperray (Université de Provence)

                                         “Symptom or Idea? Venice and Italy in James’s Early Prose (1869-1875)”

                       

15.45-16.15     COFFEE

 

16.15-17.45    Things (Chair: Matthew Rubery, University of Pennsylvania)—room 1E

Caroline Patey (University of Milan)

“The Novelist and the Collection:  A Recognition Between Culture and Modes of Writing”

                                    Joseph Elkanah-Rosenberg (University of Cambridge)

                                         “‘Tangible Facts’:  Grasping the Aspern Papers”

                                    June Chung (DePaul University)

“The Sacred in the Profane: Venice, ‘The Old Things’ and Spiritual Capitalism in The Wings of the Dove”

                       

16.15-17.45     Venice in The Wings of the Dove (Chair: Annick Duperray, Université de Provence)—room 1G

                                    Collin Meissner (University of Notre Dame)

                                         “Embracing Venice in James’s Wings: ‘We shall never again be as we were’”

                                    Stuart Robertson (UCE, Birmingham)

                                         “‘Invisible cities’: Tourism and Flanerie in The Ambassadors and The Wings of the Dove”

 

18.15-19.15                 Plenary 2:  Colm Tóibín: “Constructing Henry James.”  Introduction by Tessa Hadley (Bath Spa University College).  Location:  S. Servolo—room 1E

 

 

Thursday, July 14

9.15-10.45       Epistolary Tracings (Chair: Sheila Teahan, Michigan State University)—room 1E

                                    Pierre A. Walker (Salem State College)

“The Complete Letters of Henry James: Avoiding “Balkanization” and Its Inherent Errors”

                                    Tara D. Knapp (Center for Henry James Studies, Creighton University)

                                         “Epistolary Fluidity: Privacy and the ‘False Code’ of Letter Sharing”

                                    Greg Zacharias (Creighton University)

                                         “What’s New in Henry James’s Letters”

 

9.15-10.45       Philosophies of Experience; Experiences of Place (Chair: Gert Buelens, Ghent University)—room 1G

Peter Rawlings (University of the West of England)

     “Henry James and the Limits of Empiricism”

Eric Katz (New Jersey Institute of Technology)

     “Henry James and the Concept of Place”

Maya Higashi Wakana (Ritsumeikan University)

  “‘Obsessed’ with James: The Case of ‘The Real Thing’”

 

 

10.45-11.15     COFFEE

           

11.15-12.45     Secrets, Lies, Letters (Chair: Pierre Walker, Salem State College)—room 1E

                                                Madeline Danova (Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski)

                                                     “Tracing Henry James in The American Scene”

                                                Susan E. Gunter (Westminster College, Salt Lake City)

                                                     “Henry James, Peggy James, and Bruce Porter: Tracing the Eternal Mother”

                                                Diane Long Hoeveler (Marquette University)

“Romancing Venice: The Courtship of Percy Shelley in James’s The Aspern Papers”

                                         

                       

11.15-12.45     The Jamesian Slip (Respondent: Martin Puchner, Columbia University)—room 1G

                                    Amanda Claybaugh (Columbia University)

                                         “The Consuls”

                                    David Kurnick (Columbia University)

                                         “Other Voices, Other Houses”

                                    Christopher Stuart (University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)

                                         “Liking Henry James”

 

12.45-14.15                 LUNCH & Daniel Mark Fogel (University of Vermont): “Twenty-Five Years of the Henry James Society.”   Introduction by Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville).

 

 

14.15-16.15     Author, Author  (Chair: Andrew Cutting, London Metropolitan University)—room 1E

Karen Scherzinger (University of South Africa)

     “Author, author:  Staging Henry James”

Carlo Martinez (Università “G. d’Annunzio”)

“Who’s Afraid of Henry James?  Retracing  Authorship in ‘The Author of Beltraffio”

                                    Julie Rivkin (Connecticut College)

“Jamesian Afterlives: Reappearances in Contemporary Fiction and Film”

                                    Gilles Menegaldo (University of Poitiers)

“Jamesian Motifs and Traces in François Truffaut’s The Green Room and Jacques Rivette’s Celine and Julie Go Boating”

 

14.15-16.45     Gender (Chair: )—room 1G

                                    Linda S. Raphael (George Washington University)

                                         “Fathers and Daughters in James:  The Italian Connection”

                                    Anne-Claire Le Reste (University of Rennes)

                                         “Frames and Punched Canvases:  Women and Realism in Middle James”

Gianna Fusco (Università degli Studi di Napoli “L’Orientale”)

“Merton Densher and Heteronormative Masculinity at the Turn of the Century”

 

 

18.15-19.15                 Plenary 3:  Leo Bersani (University of California, Berkeley): “The It in the I: Patrice Leconte, Henry James, and Analytic Love.”  Introduction by Gert Buelens (Ghent University)

 

Location:  Aula Magna Silvio Trentin. Ca' Dolfin, University of Venice, Dorsoduro 3825/e. (Nearest boatstop: San Tomà). 

 

 

20.00               BANQUET: Restaurant of the Hotel Bonvecchiati (Piazza San Marco, 4488)

 

 

Friday, July 15

9.15-10.45       Life Stories (Chair: Christopher Stuart, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga)—room 1E

                                    Neil Chilton (University of Bristol)

                                         “Ways of Taking Life:  Henry James and Henry Adams”

                                    Edward Flanagan (Temple University)

                                         “Surpassing ‘Artificial Frontiers’ in ‘The Aspern Papers’”

                                    Robert Kessler Martin (Université de Montréal)

                                         “The Venetian Gondolier in Roderick Hudson”

 

9.15-10.45       Visual Arts (Chair: Phyllis Van Slyck, City University of New York, LaGuardia)—room 1G

                                    Nelly Valtat-Comet (University of Tours)

                                         “Tracing the Venetian Masters in Henry James”

                                    Clair Hughes (International Christian University, Tokyo)

                                         “‘An Eternal Conversazione’:  James, J. S. Sargent”

                                    Kyoko Miyabe (University of Cambridge)

                                         “Henry James’s and John Singer Sargent’s Realism and Venice” 

 

10.45-11.15     COFFEE

 

11.15-13.15     American James (Chair: Peter Rawlings, Bristol UWE )—room 1E

                                    John Carlos Rowe (University of Southern California)

                                         “Henry James and the United States”

                                    Daniel K. Hannah (University of Leeds)

“Impressions and Aliens: Tracing and Translating the Nation in Henry James’s The American Scene”

                                    Robin Hoople (University of Manitoba)

                                         “Henry James’s ‘Alphabet of Impressions’:  The Example of the Obelisk”

                                    Philip Horne (University College London)

                                         “On the Track:  ‘Big Game’ in ‘The Jolly Corner’”

 

11.15-13.15     The Grammar of Feeling (Chair: Eleftheria Arapoglou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)—room 1G

Melanie H. Ross (United States Merchant Marine Academy)

     “Allegories of Language in ‘In the Cage’”

Hazel Hutchison (University of Aberdeen)

     “Is There A Language after Death?  James and the Syntax of Elegy”

Alan Ackerman (University of Toronto)

     “The Trace of Napoleon in ‘Owen Wingrave’ and The Saloon”

 

13.15-14.45     LUNCH

 

14.45-16.45     The American Scene (Chair: Karen Scherzinger, University of South Africa)—room 1E

                                    Eleftheria Arapoglou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)

“The ‘Alien’ Section of The American Scene: A Case for James’s ‘Centered Peripheralness’”

                                    Leonardo Buonomo (University of Trieste)

"The Sound of Dissonance: Listening to New York in The American Scene"

                                    John Lowe (Louisiana State University)

                                         “The Human Comedy in The American Scene”

                                    William Boelhower (University of Padua)

                                         “The American Scene and the Search for a Useable Past”

                       

14.45-16.15     Traces: James in Venice, A Workshop (Chair: Greg Zacharias, Creighton University)—room 1G

                                    Rosella Mamoli Zorzi (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

                                          Presentation of a Pamphlet: “James's Venice”

                                    Gregory Dowling (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

“John Drury's Burning the Aspern Papers”

Anthony Marasco (University of California, Berkeley)

“Modes of Vision: The Aspern Papers”

Marina Coslovi (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia)

“James and Vittor Carpaccio”

 

                       

 

 

The following collaborated in the planning of “Tracing Henry James”: 

The Henry James Society

Creighton University

Venice International University

Dipartimento di Americanistica, Iberistica e Slavistica, Università