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One of the nation's first woman writers, literary pioneer Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867) is ranked with Washington Irving, James Fenimore Cooper, and William Cullen Bryant as a founder of American literature. In a career that spanned four decades before the Civil War, Sedgwick published six novels, including Hope Leslie and A New-Engl and Tale, and over one hundred short stories and sketches, as well as domestic novellas, travelogues, and books for children. Now the full breadth and complexity of Sedgwick's extensive oeuvre is examined for the first time in this groundbreaking volume, which pairs nineteenth-century reviews of her writings with new critical essays on her works. The collection illuminates Sedgwick's skillful use of rhetoric, her feminism, her realism, her reform activities, as well as her central role in shaping the nation's literature.
Contents
Catharine Maria Sedgwick in Literary History (Carolyn L. Karcher, Temple (University); Behind the Veil? Catharine Sedgwick and Anonymous Publication (Melissa J. Homestead, University of Oklahoma); "A Powerful and Thrilling Voice": The Significance of Crazy Bet (Victoria Clements, College of Southern Maryland); To "Act" and "Transact": Redwood's Revisionary Heroines (Lucinda Daemon-Bach (Salem State College); "My Sister, My Sister!": The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie (Judith Fetterley, University at Albany, State University of New York); Disinterest as Moral Corrective in Clarence's Cultural Critique (Patricia Larson Kalayjian, California State University, Dominguez Hills); "A Slave Story I Began and Abandoned": Sedgwick's Antislavery Manuscript (Karen Woods Weierman, Worcester State College); Mischief, Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods; or, "Sixty Years Since" in America (Robert Daly, University at Buffalo, State University of New York); The Collection as Literary Form: Sedgwick's Tales and Sketches of 1835 (John Austin); Sedgwick's American Poor (Sondra Smith Gates, University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac); Sedgwick and the "Art" of Conversation (Charlene Avallone); Tourism and Visual Subjection in Letters from Abroad and "An Incident at Rome" (Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire); "From Home to Home": Sedgwick's Study of Deviance (Jenifer Banks, Michigan State University); "Equal to Either Fortune": Sedgwick's Married or Single? and Feminism (Deborah Gussman, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey); The Limits of Authority: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Politics of Resistance (Susan K. Harris, Pennsylvania State University)
