Framing and Reframing the Ladies

The Author: Heike Andrea Fahrenberg, Associate Professor at Middlebury College, Vermont (USA); 1990 completion of vocational training as laboratory assistant (Biology); 1997 M.A. in German, American, and English Studies at the University of Mainz; 1998 Teachers’ State Exam (Staatsexamen) in German and English at the University of Mainz; 1994/1995 student stipend at Middlebury College, VT (USA) combined with assignment as German teaching assistant; 1998/1999 lecturer at the University of California at Davis (USA), English Department; 1999/2000 instructor at the University of Mainz, American Studies Department; since 2000 Director of the C.V. Starr-Middlebury School in Germany; 2006 Dr. phil. in American Studies at the University of Mainz.

• Contents: Self-Reflexive Acts of Framing – Framing Buildings, Framing Minds - On Houses, Prisons, Convention(s) – Narcissism’s Empty Mirrors – Isabel, Osmond, and Emerson - What’s Love Got to Do With It? – Convention Incarnate: Osmond as the World’s ‘Evil Eye’ – Observing the Proprieties - Falling for Merle – Caught in Convention’s Cage – The House of Darkness – Preferring Osmond – Consummate Pieces Cosumed: The Ball of Convention – Convention Contextualized – Imperfect Closure - Perfect Endings – Non-Affirmative Realism.