Session Information
Presentations
1: Melville the Poet, Whitman the Prosist: Generic Crossings of Two Writers at Two Hundred
Micah Bateman, U of Texas, Austin
2: Beer and Envy: The Fractured Friendship of Walt Whitman and Bayard Taylor
Kelvin Beliele, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater
3: Melville’s Education in Mathematics and Science; or, The Outside of the ‘Cold War Frame’
Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest U
4: Bartleby in Tahiti: Resistance, Literacy, and Melville
John Bryant, Hofstra U
Presider
John Matteson, John Jay C, City U of New York