“The Indians gaping before us”: Anxieties of Consumption in Mary White Rowlandson’s Sovereignty and Goodness of God

<p>This paper traces the theme of consumption throughout Mary White Rowlandson’s captivity narrative <em>The Sovereignty and Goodness of God. </em>From Rowlandson’s fear of actual cannibalism at the outset of the work, her obsession with recording the strange foods she consumes, her status as a consumer of Algonquin culture, and lastly, the consumption of the novel by both contemporary and modern readers alike, consumption becomes the leitmotif of the text. A closer analysis elucidates that the fear of consumption truly belies a fear of colonialism and the cultural exchanges taking place at the frontier.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MA English

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Woodington, Samantha

Contributors dc:contributor

• Mary Balkun, Ph.D
• John Wargacki, Ph.D

• Early American Literature
• Consume
• Mary Rowlandson
• Captivity Narrative
• Literature in English, North America

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2223

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarship.shu.edu:dissertations-3281