Catharine Maria Sedgwick: Critical Perspectives

Abstract

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) 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)