Session Details

Saturday, 08 January

600. The Global American South in the Nineteenth Century

3:30–4:45 p.m., Platinum Salon A, J. W. Marriott

Program arranged by the Division on Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Discussion Group on Southern Literature

Presiding: Lloyd P. Pratt, Michigan State Univ.

1. “An Archaeology of Slave Management: From ‘The State of War Continued’ to ‘No More Beautiful Picture of Human Society,’” Richard A. Garner, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York

2. “An Englishwoman in the South: The Global Politics of Race in Fanny Kemble’s American Journals,” Sarah Lahey, Northwestern Univ.

3. “‘Too-Wit’: Poe’s Southern Political Aesthetic in Latin America,” Matthew Sandler, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

Respondent: Caroline Field Levander, Rice Univ.

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