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The Society for the Study of American Women Writers announces the inaugural event in our series SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books, featuring Jennifer Putzi and Claudia Stokes talking with Arielle Zibrak about two new titles, focusing on what they can tell us about 19th century women writers.
For decades, critics have insisted that great writers are original, independent, and trail-blazing. But are they? Join Jennifer Putzi and Claudia Stokes in conversation with Arielle Zibrak as they reevaluate this idea and discuss their new books about the importance of convention, imitation, homage, and tradition in nineteenth-century American literature.
Jennifer Putzi, Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, & Women’s Studies at William & Mary, has written or edited five books. She is currently working on an edition of the 1868 diary of Frances Rollin Whipper. She’ll be discussing Fair Copy: Relational Poetics and Antebellum American Women’s Poetry (2021).
Claudia Stokes, Professor of English at Trinity U. in San Antonio, is the author of The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American and other works. She and Elizabeth Duquette co-edited Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Gates Ajar. She is currently editing Harriet Beecher Stowe’s religious writings. She’ll be discussing Old Style: Unoriginality and Its Uses in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature (2021).
Arielle Zibrak is the author of Avidly Reads Guilty Pleasures (NYU Press, 2021) and the editor of Edith Wharton’s The Age of Innocence: New Centenary Essays (Bloomsbury, 2019).
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Announcements will be forthcoming on how to suggest other pairings of new books for SSAWW Reads: Chats with Authors about Their New Books – please hold any proposals until then.