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Stowe Society Panels at ALA
We are pleased to announce the lineup for The Stowe Society panel at ALA in Boston (May 23-26, 2013)
Consulting “Woman’s Nature”: Religion, Theology, and Prophecy in Stowe’s Fiction
Chair: Leslie Petty, Rhodes College
1. “Stowe’s ‘Living Gospel’ and Nineteenth-Century American Women’s Religious Culture,” Mary McCartin Wearn, Middle Georgia State College
2. “‘Unsuspected Incense’: Mariology and the Problem of Suffering in The Minister’s [...]
Stowe Panel, ALA 2013
May 23-26, Boston, MA; proposal deadline Jan 28, 2013
In Oldtown Folks, Harriet Beecher Stowe famously complains that “woman’s nature had never been consulted in theology.” Yet, as the daughter, sister, and wife of clergymen, Stowe was herself steeped in the theology and religious practice of her day. Through her fiction, Stowe sometimes challenges the patriarchal [...]
CFP: Stowe Society Panel at ALA 2012
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 [...]
ALA 2010 CFP: Submissions Needed!
Call for Papers: ALA 2010. The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites papers on the following topics for the American Literature Association (ALA) conference in San Francisco, CA, May 27-30, 2010.
1. “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Visual Culture.” Papers can address illustrations of Stowe’s work in the 19th century and later, evocation of visual experience in her writing, [...]
