Back again with more coverage of Hope Leslie by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, we follow the story through the end of Volume 1. Including discussion of storytelling's place in liberal progress, the hands-on patriarchy of the colonial period, and more.

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References:

Bell, Michael Davitt. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." American Quarterly 22, no. 2 (1970): 213-21. doi:10.2307/2711644.

CREMER, ANDREA ROBERTSON. "Possession: Indian Bodies, Cultural Control, and Colonialism in the Pequot War." Early American Studies6, no. 2 (2008): 295-345. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23546576.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. "Revisioning America's (Literary) Past: Sedgwick's "Hope Leslie"." NWSA Journal8, no. 3 (1996): 63-78. http://www.jstor.org/stable/4316461.

Weierman, Karen Woods. "Reading and Writing "Hope Leslie": Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Indian "Connections"." The New England Quarterly 75, no. 3 (2002): 415-43. doi:10.2307/1559786.