"American Women Poets of the New Republic"
Society for the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW)
First International Conference
San Antonio Texas
Feb. 14-18, 2001
I am seeking papers for a proposed panel on American women poets of the New
Republic. While a number of new anthologies have focused attention on
nineteenth-century American women poets, a generation of poets writing at
the end of the eighteenth century and the beginning of the nineteenth have
been largely overlooked. The work of these women writers marks a transition
from neo-classical to romantic modes of expression, from post-Revolutionary
enlightenment thinking to Victorian ideologies, and from Republican mother
to "angel of the house."
Topics might include (but are not limited to): The relationship of public
and private genres to the current cultural and political preoccupations of
the New Republic; the role of the salon, manuscript culture, and sororal
networks; approaches to poetic authorization and the role of women poets to
the project of nation-building.
Possible poets might include: Ann Eliza Bleecker, Mercy Otis Warren, Annis
Boudinot Stockton, Elizabeth Graeme Ferguson, Sarah Wentworth Morton, Anna
Young Smith, Judith Sargent Murray, Phillis Wheatley and Susannah Rowson.
Please submit a 250 word abstract and contact information (preferably by
e-mail) by July 15, 2000 to:
Allison Giffen
English Dept., Box 30001
New Mexico State University
Las Cruces NM 88003
agiffen@nmsu.edu
For more information on SSAWW and the conference, you can visit their
website: http://www.unl.edu/legacy/SSAWW1.html
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Allison Giffen
Assistant Professor
Department of English
New Mexico State University
Box 30001, Dept. 3E
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001
(505) 646-2317
FAX: (505) 646-7725
mailto:agiffen@nmsu.edu
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