“New Approaches to Post-bellum Women Writers”
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
First International Conference
San Antonio Texas
Feb. 14-18, 2001.
Papers are solicited for a proposed session on post-bellum women
writers. While most scholarship on nineteenth-century American women
writers has focused on the domestic novelists of the 1850s-1860s or the
rise of the New Woman author in the 1890s, the work of women writers
from the Civil War to the 1880s has been neglected. In an effort to
correct this oversight, I am proposing a panel on this pivotal
generation of women writers for the inaugural meeting of the SSAWW, a
new society affiliated with the journal Legacy.
Possible authors to consider may include (but are not limited to)
Elizabeth Stoddard, Louisa May Alcott, Rebecca Harding Davis, Harriet
Prescott Spofford, Rose Terry Cooke, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Constance
Fenimore Woolson, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Charlotte Forten Grimke,
Sherwood Bonner, Mary Noailles Murfree, Emily Dickinson, Helen Hunt
Jackson, and Frances Osgood. I am particularly interested in new
approaches to this generation of writers, including examinations of
trans-Atlantic and trans-gender influences, periodical literature, and
engagement with social issues. Multi-author papers are especially
welcome.
Please submit 250-word abstracts and contact information (including
e-mail address and institutional affiliation, if applicable) by July 15
to:
Anne E. Boyd
Department of English
Lakefront Campus
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA 70158
E-mail submissions will also be accepted. Send Word file attachments
(no Word Perfect, please) to aeboyd@uno.edu. Please type the following
in the subject line: Abstract for SSAWW panel.
Full papers will be due Jan. 30, 20001. For more information, contact
me at the e-mail address above.
Information on the SSAWW and its conference is available at
http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html
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