Society of Early Americanists
SEA Sessions at the American Literature Association Conference, 2001
Session III: Thursday, May 24, 2001, 11:00-12:20 p.m.
F. INTERPRETIVE RELATIONS IN COLONIAL BRITISH AMERICA, John Quincy Adams Ballroom
Chair: Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola, University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the Society of Early Americanists
1. "Strange Antipodeans: Identity and the Other Side of the World in Early British-American Writing," Jim Egan, Brown University
2. "Carping Tongues and Censorious Poets: The Construction of Readers in Seventeenth-Century America," Raymond Craig, Kent State University
3."ëA Mean Lay-man Speaking with the Scriptureí: Interpretive Authority in Massachusetts Bay," Lisa Gordis, Barnard College
Session X: Friday, May 25, 2001, 8:00-9:20 a.m.
D. QUAKER WOMENíS AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN EARLY AMERICA, William Dawes A
Chair: Michele Lise Tarter, The College of New Jersey and the Society of Early Americanists
1. "Following the Openings: Jane Fenn Hoskensís American Quaker Life (1771)," Joanna Brooks, University of Texas at Austin
2. "ëThe Fair Advocate of Truthí: Anne Emlenís Meditations on Peace and War in Revolutionary Philadelphia," Janet Moore Lindman, Rowan University
3. "ëCousin that is a Quakerís Book!í: Elizabeth Ashbridgeís Testimony to the Power of Quaker Language, Prophecy, and Writing in Early America," Michele Lise Tarter, The College of New Jersey
Session XIV: Friday, May 25, 12:30-1:50 p.m.
D. A HISTORY OF THE BOOK IN AMERICA, VOLUME I: THE COLONIAL BOOK IN THE
Chair: Philip Gould, Brown University and the Society of Early Americanists
1. Hugh Armory, Houghton Library