Claudia Stokes awarded NEH Fellowship

Congratulations to Volume Editor Claudia Stokes who is the recipient of an NEH 2024 Fellowship for her two-volume edition of the Religious Writings for the CWHBS. The  complete list of this year’s recipients is available on the NEH website.

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CFP: Harriet Beecher Stowe Society, American Literature Association

The Harriet Beecher Stowe Society invites proposals for the 35th Annual Conference of the American Literature Association. The conference will take place at The Palmer House Hilton in Chicago from May 23 to 26, 2024. We welcome a wide range of paper topics that delve into various aspects of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s life, works, and influence. Contributors are encouraged to explore innovative approaches to Stowe.

For full details, including potential topics and submission guidelines, see http://www.stowesociety.org/calls-for-papers.html. LuElla D’Amico, a volume editor for CWHBS, is the organizer for the session.

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Updated Stowe Bibliography, Version 1.03

Designed for the Volume Editors of the Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and interested scholars, this bibliography, by General Editor Susan Belasco, is a listing of the first appearances of Stowe’s fiction and non-fiction articles, sketches, stories, serialized novels, and other works published in periodicals during her lifetime.

See “Handbook and Bibliography.” This bibliography (labelled Version 1.03) is a continuing project of the CWHBS, updated regularly with new information and sources.  This version of 747 entries corrects errors and omissions in Version 1.02 and includes articles recorded by Jerome Tharaud. Several previously undocumented works are included, with thanks to Volume Editors Wesley Raabe, Nancy Schultz, and Claudia Stokes. Volume Editors and other users are encouraged to notify us with questions, omissions, and errors at stowecollectedworks@gmail.com .

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Raabe appointed Textual Editor for CWHBS

The Editorial Board of Oxford University Press has officially approved the appointment of Wesley Raabe as Textual Editor for the CWHBS. While Wesley has been working informally in this role since the beginning of the project, he has now signed a contract making this position official. In addition to serving as the Volume Editor of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Wesley has extensive editorial experience and expertise. We are delighted to have him serve in this senior role for the CWHBS project.

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Contract Issued for Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The Editorial Board of Oxford University Press has reviewed and officially approved the proposal for Uncle Tom’s Cabin, edited by Wesley Raabe. To read the proposal, see his CWHBS Volume Proposal for Uncle Tom’s Cabin (PDF). The contract has been signed, and he is at at work on the volume. Congratulations to Wesley!

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Contract Issued for Religious Writings (2 vols.)

The Editorial Board of Oxford University Press has reviewed and officially approved the proposal for the two-volume collection of Religious Writings, edited by Claudia Stokes. To read the proposal, see her CWHBS Volume Proposal for Religious Writings (PDF). The contract has been signed, and she is at at work on the volumes. Congratulations to Claudia!

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Updated Stowe Bibliography in Progress

Designed for the Volume Editors of the Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and interested scholars, this bibliography, by General Editor Susan Belasco, is a listing of the first appearances of Stowe’s fiction and non-fiction articles, sketches, stories, serialized novels, and other works published in periodicals during her lifetime.  To date, we have posted two versions of this bibliography and Susan is preparing Version 1.03, incorporating corrections and some new finds.  Please let her know if you have any errors or omissions to incorporate into this latest version. 

Send any suggestions by November 15 to:  sbelasco@unl.edu

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Stowe’s Key and Undergraduate Research at Lafayette College

See this story on undergraduate research by Madeline Marriott at Lafayette College, with Christopher N. Phillips, co-editor of A Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
https://news.lafayette.edu/2022/08/01/unlocking-harriet-beecher-stowe/
For more information about editing Stowe’s Key, by Phillips with co-editors Zachary Hutchins and Edward Whitley, see the original CWHBS announcement, here.

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Updated Stowe Bibliography, Version 1.02

Designed for the Volume Editors of the Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe and interested scholars, this bibliography, by General Editor Susan Belasco, is a listing of the first appearances of Stowe’s fiction and non-fiction articles, sketches, stories, serialized novels, and other works published in periodicals during her lifetime.

See “Handbook and Bibliography.” This bibliography (labelled Version 1.02) is a continuing project of the CWHBS, updated regularly with new information and sources.  This version of 745 entries corrects errors and omissions in Version 1.01. Several previously undocumented works are included, with thanks to Volume Editors Wesley Raabe, Nancy Schultz, and Claudia Stokes. Volume Editors and other users are encouraged to notify us with questions, omissions, and errors at stowecollectedworks@gmail.com .

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Melissa J. Homestead and Ashley Reed to edit The Minister’s Wooing

The Collected Works of Harriet Beecher Stowe (CWHBS) has commissioned Melissa J. Homestead and Ashley Reed to edit The Minister’s Wooing for volume 10, Novels.

Homestead is Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  She has published widely on American women’s writing and authorship from the late 1700s through the early 1900s.  She is the author of American Women Authors and Literary Property, 1822-1869 (Cambridge University Press, 2005) and the co-editor of Clarence; or, a Tale of Our Times (1830) by Catharine Maria Sedgwick. (Broadview, 2011); Willa Cather and Modern Cultures. Cather Studies 9 (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) and E.D.E.N. Southworth: Recovering a Nineteenth-Century Popular Novelist (University of Tennessee Press, 2012).  Her most recent book is The Only Wonderful Things: The Creative Partnership of Willa Cather and Edith Lewis (Oxford University Press, 2021).  She serves as Director of the Cather Project at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the Project Director of a Digital Edition of Every Week Magazine (1915-1918), and is the Associate Editor of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather: A Digital Edition.

Ashley Reed is Associate Professor of English and affiliate faculty in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech. She is the author of Heaven’s Interpreters: Women Writers and Religious Agency in Nineteenth-Century America (Cornell University Press, 2020) and has published articles in J19: The Journal of Nineteenth-Century AmericanistsESQ: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and CultureReligion Compass, and Digital Humanities Quarterly

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