American Literature
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Textual Editing and the Future of Scholarly Editions (Panel 4) | Panel 4 - "Textual Editing and the Future of Digital Editions"
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Recovering the Lost Years of John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters | Though the early years of Phillis Wheatley’s life are well-established, the details of her life after she became Phillis Peters upon her marriage to John Peters, a free Black shopkeeper in Boston, have been more difficult to discern. In this conversation, Henry Louis Gates Jr. will discuss with Cornelia Dayton her groundbreaking article, recently published in the New England Quarterly, which uses a cache of Essex County legal papers to shed light on this period of Wheatley Peters’s life. |
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Women and the World of Dime Novels | Full of romance and adventure, dime novels were a variety of melodramatic fiction that was popular in the United States from about 1860 until the early 1900s. Published as cheap paperbacks (most cost only ten cents), they were generally regarded as low-quality fiction. Women, more often than not, were major characters in these novels. This exhibition explores these women. |
| Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics | ||
| American Environmental Fiction, 1782-1847 | ||
| Oracles of Empire: Poetry, Politics, and Commerce in British America, 1690-1750 | ||
| Money, Language, and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era | ||
| Moral Enterprise: Literature and Education in Antebellum America | ||
| Writing the Seaman's Tale in Law and Literature: Dana, Melville, and Justice Story | ||
| E. D. E. N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist |