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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
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Resources: Abstracts of American Studies Dissertations
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Parrish, Nancy Clyde. "Fair and Tender Ladies at Tinker Creek: Women Writers Coming of Age," American Studies Program, College of William and Mary, August 1993.
This dissertation uses archival material and interviews to study the biographical and cultural forces that established one highly successful writing environment for women. The historical tension at women’s colleges between intellectual aspirations and conventional social expectations persisted in the twentieth century South. The cult of professionalism that finally legitimated high academic standards for women took the form—at Hollins College—of a creative writing program established by Louis D. Rubin, Jr. The subsequent writings of Annie Dillard, Lee Smith, Anne Goodwyn Jones and others show the influence of this program that allowed them to take advantage of the unsettled status between academic and social goals to develop their literary voices.
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