Note: Deadline for abstracts extended one week.
Proposed panel for 2004 MLA Conference in Philadelphia:
Visions of History in American Literature, 1876-1886. How did historical
literature (in all genres) portray and construct the American past in this
critical post-Centennial and –Reconstruction decade? All approaches welcome.
Abstracts by 17 Mar.; Ben Railton (barailton@hotmail.com).
A few examples of historical texts (broadly defined) from the decade:
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Grandissimes
The Bostonians
Sarah Piatt’s poetry
Herman Melville’s Clarel
Uncle Remus tales
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
Send abstracts to barailton@hotmail.com.
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