Presentations

1: Orientalist Truth in Honoré de Balzac’s La peau de chagrin and Voyage de Paris à Java

Michelle Lee, New York U

2: ‘Jouer le Naturel’: Balzac and Company before Realism

Maria Beliaeva Solomon, New York U

3: Too Good to Be True? George Sand and the Conspiracy Theory of History

Rebecca Sugden, U of Cambridge

4: Red Herrings in Gaboriau’s L’affaire Lerouge

Francoise Belot, U of Puget Sound

Presider

Elizabeth N. Emery, Montclair State U