CFP: The Future of Stowe Scholarship (11/30/05; SSAWW, 11/8/06-11/11/06)

full name / name of organization: 
Smith, Gail K.
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The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites papers for a session on "The =
Future of Stowe Scholarship" at the 2006 conference of the Society for =
the Study of American Women Writers (SSAWW) in Philadelphia, PA, =
November 8-11, 2006.=20
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Twenty years after Jane Tompkins battled Ann Douglas, where is Stowe =
scholarship heading and where should it be heading? What new approaches =
will be fruitful? What paradigms need shifting? What understudied =
Stowe texts cry out for attention--and what kind of attention? As we =
shape this discussion we welcome a) papers assessing the course of Stowe =
scholarship and its future; b) papers making a case for and =
demonstrating a particular underused critical strategy in the study of =
one or more Stowe texts; and/or c) papers making a case for the study of =
one or more lesser-known Stowe texts. Email 200-word abstracts (within =
text--no attachments please) and brief CV to Gail Smith, =
Birmingham-Southern College, gsmith_at_panther.bsc.edu. Deadline: =
November 30, 2005.

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