Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is sponsoring a festive lunch and two scholarly sessions at the 2025 convention of the Modern Language Association in New Orleans.

Session 437:

Romanticism, the Shelley Circle, and the Spirit of the Age

Saturday, January 11, 2025, 8:30-9:45 a.m.

Chart C, Hilton Riverside New Orleans

Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association and the Keats-Shelley Association of America

Presiding: Brian Rejack, Illinois State University

1. "Wollstonecraft's Spirit: A Contemporary Portrait," Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts University

2. "'Mirrors of the Gugantic Shadows': Spirited Away by the Shelleys," Jennifer M.B. Wallace, University of Cambridge, Peterhouse

3. "Things as They Are; or, The Spirits of the Age," Margaret E. Russett, University of Southern California

4. "The 'Legislator' and the 'Spirit of the Age' in Shelley's Defence of Poetry," Pablo San Martin Varela, University of Chile

Session 516:

Romanticism, Hazlitt, and the Spirit of the Age

Saturday, January 11, 2025, 12:00-1:15 p.m.

Chart B, Hilton Riverside New Orleans

Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association

Presiding: Ian Balfour, York University

1. "The Spirits of the Law: The Trials of Hazlitt's 'Contemporary Portraits,'" Mark Schoenfeld, Vanderbilt University

2. "Hue and Cry: Hazlitt's Chromophobia and the Color of Romanticism," Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol, Trinity University

3. "The Spirit of the Postcolonial Age: Hazlitt, the Popular Arts, and West Indian Independence," Nasser Mufti, University of Illinois Chicago