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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Hope Leslie"”.
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C. M. Sedgwick's 'Patient Investigation' of America's Past: An Intertextual Study of Hope Leslie
… 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 Sedgwick's …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… 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 general, all three novels share …
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The Dark Cloud of Jeffersonian Philanthropy: Native American Assimilation and the Critique of the Frontier Romance
… and Sedgwick's <italic>Hope Leslie</italic>. Christianity and the Native American is discussed in a chapter on Bleecker's <italic>The History of Maria Kittle</italic>, Brown's <italic>Wieland</italic>, Sedgewick's <italic>Hope Leslie</italic>, and the anonymously …
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The willful wild : nature and survival in early nineteenth-century American literature.
… 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 ignored by other …