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March 8th: Book Signing and Talk With Robin Bernstein
March 8th, 5:00 PM at The Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights by Robin Bernstein Just published! Available in the Stowe Center Museum Store Robin Bernstein is a familiar face in the Stowe Center Library. Her book, Racial Innocence: Performing American Childhood from Slavery to Civil Rights, relied heavily on artifacts [...]
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October 10-13, 2012; Westin Tabor Center, Denver, Colorado Call for Proposals see: http://ssaww2012.wordpress.com/ for full details Key dates: Monday, February 6, 2012: Proposals due to ssawwconf@gmail.com; see page 2 for directions. May 2012: Acceptance notifications sent June 30, 2012: Program schedule announced Note: Presenters must be members of SSAWW by the “early/discounted” date for conference registration in the fall of 2012. Participants [...]
May 24th – 27th, 2012, San Fransisco, CA “Family Life & the Fiction of Harriet Beecher Stowe.” Papers are sought on any aspect of family life in the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Proposals are welcomed for studies that approach Stowe’s fiction using rubrics such as motherhood, fatherhood, siblings, the figure of the child, slave families, faith [...]
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- New York, NY – Peter Lang Publishing, USA announces the forthcoming publication of Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home, by Elif S. Armbruster. (ISBN 978-1- 4331-1249-2 | HC | $89.95 | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature, Vol. 105) Expected date of publication: 5/1/11 Domestic Biographies: Stowe, Howells, James, and Wharton at Home presents comparative domestic biographies of four American Realist writers: Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Dean Howells, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. Drawing upon extensive primary sources to reconstruct the authors’ private lives, Domestic Biographies illuminates how they lived when no one was looking. In particular this book examines how the authors worked and wrote at home and how their home life in turn made its way into their novels and non-fiction. Domestic Biographies offers an innovative and exciting architectural and domestic lens through which to study the lives and literature of America’s best-known Realists. Elif S. Armbruster, Assistant Professor of English at Suffolk University, received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Boston University. #
- Stowe Society member Susan Belasco (University of Nebraska—Lincoln) recently completed a project on Stowe for Times Topics, a part of the New York Times online. She was even able to include a link to the Stowe Society in the sidebar for NYT readers. Go check it out. #
Welcome to The Stowe Society
The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society offers academics, independent scholars, and students an opportunity to share in the study and appreciation of the works and life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Through presentations of scholarly work, roundtable discussions, and conferences, the Society provides a forum for Stowe studies. The Stowe Society was founded in 1996 by Dorothy Baker of the University of Houston.
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