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American Studies: Then and Now (2024)
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Holmes, L. P., & Hussain, H. (2024, December). American Studies: Then and Now

The seminar considered American Studies’ long understanding that histories and historiographies of American society and culture represent an attempt to impose an ordered narrative on its national origin story. In recasting its history to create and p... Read More about American Studies: Then and Now.

"Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:" Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge (2024)
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Holmes, L. P. (2024, October). "Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:" Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge. Paper presented at Preachers, Hearers, Readers, and Scribes: New Approaches to Early Modern Sermons in Manuscript, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, MA

The extent of Anne Bradstreet’s influence on the sociopolitical culture of the late seventeenth century remains critically underresearched. Historically misrepresented as a mere housewife of limited poetical prowess, Bradstreet in fact won considerab... Read More about "Had I opportunity but to borrow some of the author’s wit:" Anne Bradstreet and the Sermons of John Woodbridge.

"She openeth her mouth with wisdom" (Prov. 31:26): orality and aurality in the motherhood literature of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Proverbs 31:26 – “She openeth her mouth with wisdom, and the law of grace is in her tongue” –
is central to the motherhood literature of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672). Bradstreet’s identity as a
wife and mother is deeply intertwined with her identity... Read More about "She openeth her mouth with wisdom" (Prov. 31:26): orality and aurality in the motherhood literature of Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672).