UPDATE: Transatlantic Stowe (6/22/01 & 10/1/01; collection)

From: Emily Todd (etodd@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu)
Date: Thu Jun 07 2001 - 16:24:29 EDT

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    Deadline Extended: 1- to 2-page proposals due June 22, 2001. (For details,
    read the following call for papers.)

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    CALL FOR PAPERS (essay collection)

    Transatlantic Stowe: Essays on Harriet Beecher Stowe and the
    Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture of Western Europe

    Harriet Beecher Stowe is of course a central figure in studies of American
    literature and culture, but her literary and literal forays abroad also make
    her important to the history of nineteenth-century transatlantic exchanges,
    and particularly to those between Britain and America. Despite the fact
    that transatlantic contact is at the center of critical interest at the
    moment, specifically in relation to what Paul Gilroy calls "The Black
    Atlantic," Stowe's literary and political relationships with writers and
    activists abroad remain largely unexplored. This proposed collection of
    essays will focus on Stowe in a transatlantic context by examining her role
    in European reading and publishing history; her reading of Edgeworth,
    Dickens, and Scott; her literary friendships with George Eliot and others;
    transatlantic debates over race, slavery, and abolition; nineteenth-century
    travel writing; Lady Byron Vindicated and Agnes of Sorrento; and
    Anglo-American political, cultural and social relations. We would like this
    collection itself to be transatlantic and interdisciplinary, and therefore
    welcome essays from scholars in all disciplines from around the world.

    Deadlines: 1- to 2-page proposals by *June 22, 2001* (note new deadline);
    completed essays due October 1, 2001. Please send proposals and/or address
    informal inquiries to one of the following co-editors:

    Denise Kohn
    Department of English and Harriet Beecher Stowe Society
    Greensboro College
    815 Greensboro, NC 27401-1875
    USA
    kohnd@gborocollege.edu

    Sarah Meer
    Department of English and Media
    Nottingham Trent University
    Nottingham NG11 8NS
    England, UK
    sarah.meer@ntu.ac.uk

    Emily Todd
    Department of English
    Westfield State College
    577 Western Avenue
    Westfield, MA 01086
    USA
    etodd@wisdom.wsc.ma.edu

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