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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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Spencer, Stacy L. "Women Writers and the Literary Journey, 1832-1844," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1991. Advisor: Julie Ellison (12, 2, 22)
This study explores four literary journeys written by American and British authors: Margaret Fuller, Frances Trollope, and Caroline Kirkland. The literary journey, as constructed by these writers, is at once an autobiography, a social commentary, and a work of imagination. Generic heterogeneity operates in these texts as a mode of cultural dialogue, with “sympathy” as a means of bringing together contentious desires within the reader and within the cultural at large. Travel writing situates the female subject (the “I” of the text) in relation to the social economy. The literary journey allowed women to enter political discourse and still speak specifically as women.
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