Laura M. Stevens, 'Fostering and Theft: The Hunger for Children'

Laura M. Stevens is Associate Professor of English at The University of Tulsa, co-editor of Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature and President of the Society of Early Americanists. She delivered this keynote paper on 2 July 2016 at ‘Emotions: Movement, Cultural Contact and Exchange, 1100–1800’, a conference jointly organised by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (Europe 1100–1800) and the Freie Universität Berlin.