Tuesday, 28 December
156. The History of the Book and the Idea of Literature
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board
Presiding: Seth Lerer, Stanford Univ.; Leah Price, Harvard Univ.
1. “Circulating Ballads: The Preliterary and Paraliterary in the Antebellum United States,” Meredith L. McGill, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
2. “America Reading: Fiction, Class, and Taste,” Gordon N. Hutner, Univ. of Kentucky
3. “Ego non sum ego: Print and Autobiography,” Jody Greene, Univ. of California, Santa Cruz