Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical PerspectivesLucinda L. Damon-Bach, Victoria Clements UPNE, 2003 - 328 pages 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-England 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
Excerpts from Early Overviews of Sedgwicks Career | 3 |
Excerpts from Biographical Sketches | 17 |
Portrait of Catharine Maria Sedgwick | 36 |
Excerpts from Reviews of A NewEngland Tale or Sketches | 37 |
A Tale | 53 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Hope Leslie or Early Times in the Massachusetts | 75 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Clarence or A Tale of Our Own Times | 101 |
Excerpt from Sedgwicks Unfinished Antislavery Manuscript | 119 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home | 209 |
Thomas Stothard The Fountain 1830 | 222 |
Letters and a Sketch of Sedgwicks Prison Work | 231 |
366 | 246 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Married or Single? | 249 |
56 | 258 |
Excerpts from Reviews Addressing Sedgwicks Politics | 269 |
Rediscovery | 286 |
Mrs Theodore Sedgwick Pamela Dwight and daughter | 139 |
Excerpts from Reviews of The Linwoods or Sixty Years Since | 141 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Tales and Sketches | 155 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Home The Poor Rich Man and the Rich Poor | 171 |
Photograph of a portrait of Catharine Maria Sedgwick | 188 |
Excerpts from Reviews of Means and Ends or SelfTraining | 189 |
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References to this book
Language, Gender, and Citizenship in American Literature, 1789 1919 Amy Dunham Strand No preview available - 2008 |