On March 14, 2024, we gather in Pasadena at the 2024 C19 Eighth Biennial Conference for a roundtable organized by the Margaret Fuller Society on “Refusing Foreclosures and Endings: 19C Women Writers’ Defiance, Persistence, and Resilience.” We have an impressive lineup of papers. Below you will find their titles, authors, and author bios.
“Margaret Fuller and the Ends of Immigrant Inclusion” by Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University)
“Feminist Kill(ed) Joys: Woman’s Health and Feminist Resistance in The Una (1853-55)” by Alice De Galzain (University of Sussex)
“Going Beyond: Cross-cultural Literary Adventure of Rebecca Rush and Lydia H. Sigourney” by Rowshan Chowdhury (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
“Mirrored in Miranda: Margaret Fuller’s Intertextual Dialogues with Paternal Legacies and Male Discourses in ‘The Great Lawsuit'” by Manzar Feiz (University of Texas, Dallas)
“‘Still-Born Aspirations:’ Mothers of Stone in Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s The Story of Avis” by Maddie Olley (Syracuse University)
“Defiant Friendship: Female Intersubjectivity in the 19th Century Asylum” by Elisabeth Harris (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
