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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Catharine Maria"”.
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Wicked widows, crazy spinsters, and competent heroines : the single woman in sentimental fiction
… appear in such traditional sentimental novels Catharine Maria Sedgwick's A New England Tale , Susan Warner's The Wide, Wide World and Maria Susanna Cummins' The Lamplighter . Fanny Fern's Ruth Hall , Harriet Wilson's Our Nig and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl borrow …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth century and question the nature of medical authority. In …
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The Grammar Of Kinship: Black And Native Intimacies In The Nineteenth Century
… Through turning to a diverse range of works by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Lydia Maria Child, Dion Bouicault, Harriet Jacobs, and E.Pauline Johnson, “The Grammar of Kinship” examines how enslaved and formerly enslaved Afro-Cherokees, African American and Indigenous writers produced radical …
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Economic Crisis and American Literature, 1819-1857
… Emerson’s transcendentalist addresses (1837), Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s didactic allegories (1836-37), and Herman Melville’s anti-novel (1857) are fundamentally concerned with the economic problems of panics, including excess, abundance, and scarcity. </p> <p> Literary engagement with panic …
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Excavating the landscapes of American literature: Archaeology, antiquarianism, and the landscape in American women's writing, 1820--1890
… upon the writings of Sarah Josepha Hale, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Fenimore Cooper, Celia Thaxter, and Constance Fenimore Woolson, the project examines depictions of artifacts, ruins, relics, and other antiquities in literary landscapes. Each of these women presents a unique way of …
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Troubling the Water: Dismantling the Ideology of Separate Spheres
… of slavery. In Chapter Two, I examine Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s “The Chivalric Sailor” and Emma Cole’s <em>The Life and Sufferings of Miss Emma Cole</em>; through these texts, I argue that women passing as seafarers model appropriate performances of masculinity and femininity and …
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
Since the 1987 republication of Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie ; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (1827), literary-historical interpretations have most often explored its proto-feminist impulses, revisionary history of the Pequod War, and models of American citizenship. Inquiries into …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Catherine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie, and Black Hawk's Autobiography all imagine survival stories within which protagonists must strive against a willful, agentic wilderness. Within these stories, the natural world gains an agency that is largely hidden or …