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SUMMARY:Academic Seminar
DESCRIPTION:<b>Yvette Piggush</b>, Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University and
AAS-NEH Long-term Fellow

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<i>Shop Windows and the Exhibitionary Complex in Antebellum America</i></p><p>
Nathaniel Hawthorne?s stories of all things guilty, gothic, and Puritan are well known and easily linked to his fondness for museums. His writings about the related experience of shop window displays, in contrast, have received little attention.  Using images of shops and Hawthorne?s discussions of windows in his novel The House of Seven Gables (1851) and in his short story ?Little Annie?s Ramble? (1835), this presentation expands our knowledge of commercial exhibitions and their reception in the antebellum period.  While some saw shop displays in terms of class?as opportunities for free education or for theft?Hawthorne looked at them for an alternative to the gendered hierarchies of the museum.
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DTSTART:20120514T203000Z

LOCATION:Elmarion Room, Goddard-Daniels House, 190 Salisbury Street, Worcester, MA
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