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The American Literature Association
2009 Annual Conference
The Westin Copley Hotel
Boston, Massachusetts
May
21-24, 2009
Melville and the End(s) of Philosophy
Chair: Maurice S. Lee, Boston University
American Socrates:
Melville and the Sacrifice of Philosophy
John Barnard, Boston University
Melville's Pierre, Social Reform,
and the Agony of Moral Perfection
Christopher Freeburg
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
(Im)Possible Gifts in Melville's Typee and The Confidence-Man
Hildegard Hoeller
CUNY Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island
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The Modern Language Association
2009 Annual Conference
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
December 27-30, 2009
Herman Melville: A Writer and his Books
Chair: Peter Norberg, Saint Joseph’s University
"Mute Marbles":
Roman Aesthetics in the Poetry
Dennis Berthold, Texas A & M University
"Secret[s] published in a portrait":
Melville's Disruptive Visual Aesthetics in Pierre
Shelley Jarenski, University of Michigan, Dearborn
Melville's "Mousetrap":
Using Shakespeare to Unmask Manifest Destiny in Moby-Dick
Ida Rothschild, Boston University
"Crack'd Archangel":
Sir Thomas Browne's Religio Medici, the Bible,
and Religious Difference in Melville's Fiction and Poetry
Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso