The Hawthorne Conference organizers offer this wide-ranging rubric to include
such topics as: Hawthorne's new start at Bowdoin, his beginnings as a tale writer;
his "new" career as a novelist; his new (and constantly renewed) reputation;
his interest in the beginnings of things (biblical, historical, personal); his
new friends; his sense of the "new" vs. the "old" world;
his definition of the "new" woman--and new man ("New Adam and
Eve"); Hawthorne and the New Romanticism; Hawthorne and the New Classroom;
Hawthorne and the (new) State of Maine; Hawthorne and the (new) structure of
allegory; and Hawthorne in the new (21st) Century.
Please send paper topics by December 1, 2007, to Sam Coale, 39 Pratt Street,
Providence, RI 02906 or samcoale@cox.net
