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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies due
Jun. 30 | 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize
Nominations for the 2012 Mary C. Turpie Prize for Outstanding Contributions to American Studies Teaching, Advising, and Program Development due
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Pannapacker, William A. "Revised Lives: Studies in the Changing Constructions of Authorial Identity in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Culture," History of American Civilization, Harvard University, April 1999.
Drawing on the History of the Book, Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology, and gender and ethnicity studies, “Revised Lives” attributes the frequency of self-refashioning among nineteenth-century Americans to the evolution of the bourgeois self-conception across ethnic/racial lines, the standardization of autobiographical genres, the consolidation of national identity during the Civil War period, the separation of elite and popular culture, the emergence of photography, changing constructions of masculinity, and authors’ (unsuccessful) attempts at regulating their reception in the U.S. and England. The study focuses, in particular, on Walt Whitman but includes comparative treatments of Franklin, Equiano, Poe, Frederick Douglass, Lincoln, J.R. Lowell, and P.T. Barnum.
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