Hope Leslie: Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts (American Women Writers) - Softcover

Sedgwick, Catherine Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813512220 ISBN 13: 9780813512228

Verlag: Rutgers University Press, 1987

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Hope Leslie (1827), set in the seventeenth-century New England, is a novel that forced readers to confront the consequences of the Puritans' subjugation and displacement of the indigenous Indian population at a time when contemporaries were demanding still more land from the Cherokees, the Chickasaws, and the Choctaws. ""This handsome reprint ... makes available after many decades the New Englander's tale of seventeeth-century Puritans, and their relations with the indigenous Indian population."" -- Nineteeth-Century Literature "" A splendidly conceived edition of Sedwick's historical romance. Highly recommended."" --Choice ""Develop(s) the connections between patriarchal authority within the Puritan state and its policy of dispossessing and exterminating Indians. The different heritage it envisions explicitly link white women and Indians and elaborates a communal concept of liberty at odds with the individualistic concept which predominated in American culture."" -- Legacy

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Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. At the center of the novel are two friends. Hope Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society, fights for justice for the Indians and asserts the independence of women. Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief, braves her father's wrath to save a white man and risks her freedom to reunite Hope with her long-lost sister, captured as a child by the Pequots and now married to Magawisca's brother. Amply plotted, with unforgettable characters, Hope Leslie is a rich, compelling, deeply satisfying novel.

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• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0813512220
• ISBN 13: 9780813512228
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
• Herausgeber: Kelley Mary