Session Details

Tuesday, 30 December

748. Reception Criticism, Book History, and American Literary Studies: Points of Convergence

8:30–9:45 a.m., Golden Gate 5, Hilton

A special session

Presiding: Barbara Ann Hochman, Ben-Gurion Univ. of the Negev

1. “Reception and Reprinting as Remaking: Catharine Sedgwick, National Authorship, and Children’s Literature,” James L. Machor, Kansas State Univ.

2. “Black Newspaper Reading, Scrapbooks, and the Public Sphere in the Late-Nineteenth-Century United States,” Ellen Gruber Garvey, New Jersey City Univ.

3. “Sparing the White Child: The Lessons of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in an Age of Segregation,” Barbara Ann Hochman

For copies of abstracts, write to machor@ksu.edu.

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