The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
The Wordsworth-Coleridge Association is sponsoring a festive lunch and two scholarly sessions at the 2027 convention of the Modern Language Association Los Angeles.
Session 401
Romantic Disenchantment
Friday, January 8, 2027, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center - 404A
Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge
Association
Presiding: Jacob Risinger, Ohio State University
1. "Was It for This? Hazlitt, Coleridge, and Romantic Disenchantment," Charles W. Mahoney, University of Connecticut
2. "Wordsworth: Hope Against Hope," Laura Quinney, Brandeis University
3. "Conviction in the Confessions: Scott, Hogg, and Romantic Beliefs in Belief," Deidre Lynch, Harvard University
4. "Always a Jacobin," Mark E. Canuel, University of Illinois Chicago
Session 441
Romantic Disenchantment
Friday, January 8, 2027, 5:15-6:30 p.m.
Los Angeles Convention Center - 404A
Program arranged by the Wordsworth-Coleridge Association
Presiding: Amelia Worsley, Amherst College
1. "On the Concept of Disillusionment," Claudia Brodsky, Princeton University
2. "Narrating Annette Vallon, Re-enchanting Wordsworth: Secrecy and Scandal in the Interwar Period," Christopher Rovee, Louisiana State University
3. "The Fifteen Keatsian Autumns of John Clare," Nathan TeBokkel, Western University
4. "Disappointment and Improvement in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark," Hannah Piette, Yale University
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