The Celebrity Climate of the Poetess Persona in Robert E. Bonner's New York Ledger

This session explores five different approaches to "climate" as they inform intersecting subfields across Americanist scholarship. These presentations will be both informative and provocative. Our five panelists represent... [ view full abstract ]

This session explores five different approaches to "climate" as they inform intersecting subfields across Americanist scholarship. These presentations will be both informative and provocative. Our five panelists represent diverse approaches, and their 10-minute talks will cover some of the major changes in U.S. culture across the long nineteenth century: from emergent economic and climatological theories in the 1840s; to transhemispheric antebellum practices of--and debates about--labor, including (northern) factory and (Caribbean) plantation management; to influential media climates in the 1850s as constructed by popular periodicals; to the political climate during the Civil War, with a focus on Lincoln, treason, and the suspension of habeas corpus; and finally, to Reconstruction-era representations of "literal" climate as they speak to postwar concerns with region and difference.