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Bibliography of Secondary Sources on Sedgwick (August, 2002)


Bauermeister, Erica R. “The Lamplighter, The Wide, Wide World, and Hope Leslie: The Recipes for Nineteenth-Century American Women's Novels.” Legacy: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers 8, no. 1 (1991 Spring): 17-28.

Baumgartner, Barbara Ann. Reading and Writing Bodily Violence in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing. Dissertation: Northwestern U, 1998.

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Beach, Seth Curtis – Daughters of the Puritans (1905)

Bell, Michael D. "History and Romance Convention in Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie." American Quarterly 22, (1970): 213-21.

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Buchenau, Barbara . "Wizards of the West? How Americans Respond to Sir Walter Scott, the 'Wizard of the North.'" James Fenimore Cooper: His Country and His Art 11, (1997): 14-25.

Buchenau, Barbara, Eva Findenegg, and Frank Lauterbach. “Normative Programs and Artistic Liberties: Inter-American Case Studies in Historical Fiction and the Campaigns for Cultural Dissociation.” Book Information: Wallstein, Gottingen, Germany Internationalitat nationaler Literaturen Schoning, Udo (ed.)--Weinhagen, Beata (ed.)--Seemann, Frank (ed.)

Cagidemetrio, Alide. “A Plea for Fictional Histories and Old-Time 'Jewesses.’” The Invention of Ethnicity. Ed. Werner Sollors. New York: Oxford UP, 1989.

Carmichael, Tami Skinner. Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Literary Miscegenation: Transcending Boundaries in 19th Century American Literature. Dissertation: U of Georgia, 1998.

Castiglia, Christopher. In Praise of Extra-Vagant Women: Hope Leslie and the Captivity Romance. Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 6, no. 2 (1989 Fall): 3-16.

Clements, Victoria L. Dancing Discourses: Nineteenth-Century American Women's Fiction and Subject/Object Relations. Dissertation: George Washington U, 1998.

Damon-Bach, Lucinda Linfield 'The Joy of Untamed Spirits and Undiminished Strength': Catherine Sedgwick's and Susan Warner's Revisionary Romances. Dissertation: State U of New York, Buffalo, 1995.

Davidson, Cathy N. Preface. A New-England Tale; or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners. By Catharine Maria Sedgwick. New York: Oxford UP, 1995. vii-ix.

---. Revolution and the Word: The Rise of the Novel in America. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.

Dean, Janet Elaine Mediating Women: Gender and the Frontier in the American Imagination, 1804-1853. Dissertation: Columbia U, 1996.

Derounian-Stodola, Kathryn Zabelle. The Gendering of American Fiction: Susanna Rowson to Catharine Sedgwick. Making America/Making American Literature. Eds. A. Robert Lee and W. M. Verhoeven. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996.

Dewey, Mary E., ed. - Life and letters of Catharine M. Sedgwick (1871)

Fetterley, Judith “'My Sister! My Sister!': The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 70, no. 3 (1998 Sept): 491-516.

---. Introduction. “Cacoethes Scribendi.” Provisions: A Reader from 19th-Century American Women. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1985. 41-49.

Fick, Thomas H. “Catharine Sedgwick's 'Cacoethes Scribendi': Romance in Real Life.” Studies in Short Fiction 27, no. 4 (1990 Fall): 567-76.

Ford, Douglas. “Inscribing the 'Impartial Observer' in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 14, no. 2 (1997): 81-92

Foster, Edward Halsey. Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Twayne's United States Authors Series 233. New York: Twayne, 1974.

Garvey, T. Gregory. “Risking Reprisal: Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie and the Legitimation of Public Action by Women.” American Transcendental Quarterly 8, no. 4 (1994 Dec): 287-98.

Gee, Karen Richardson. “Women, Wilderness, and Liberty in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” Studies in the Humanities 19, no. 2 (1992 Dec): 161-70

Gidez, Richard Banus. A Study of the Works of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Dissertation: Ohio State University, 1958.

Giles, Jane. "Catharine Maria Sedgwick: An American Literary Biography." Diss. City U. of New York, 1984. Ann Arbor: UMI, 1984.

Gossett, Suzanne and Barbara Ann Bardes. “Women and Political Power in the Republic: Two Early American Novels.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 2, no. 2 (1985 Fall): 13-30

Gould, Philip. “Catharine Sedgwick's 'Recital' of the Pequot War.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography 66, no. 4 (1994 Dec): 641-62.

---. Covenant and Republic : Historical Romance and the Politics of Puritanism. NY: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Harris, Susan. 19th-Century American Women's Novels: Interpretive Strategies. New York: Cambridge UP, 1990.

Higonnet, Margaret R. “Comparative Reading: Catharine M. Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15, no. 1 (1998): 17-22

Holly, Carol. “Nineteenth-Century Autobiographies of Affiliation: The Case of Catharine Sedgwick and Lucy Larcom.” American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect. Ed. Paul John Eakin. Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1991.

Kalayjian, Patricia Larson. “Cooper and Sedgwick: Rivalry or Respect?” James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaney 4, (1993 Sept): 9-19.

---. Her 'Classic Pen': Critical Politics and the Reputation of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Dissertation: Duke U, 1992?

Karafilis, Maria. “Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: The Crisis between Ethical Political Action and US Literary Nationalism in the New Republic.” American Transcendental Quarterly 12, no. 4 (1998 Dec): 327-44.

Kelley, Mary, ed. Introduction. Hope Leslie; or, Early Times in the Massachusetts. 1827. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers UP, 1987.

---. Introduction. The Power of her Sympathy : the Autobiography and Journal of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. Boston : Mass. Historical Society : Distributed by Northeastern UP, 1993.

---. “Legacy Profile: Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 6, no. 2 (1989 Fall): 43-50.

---. Negotiating a Self: The Autobiography and Journals of Catharine Maria Sedgwick. The New England Quarterly: A Historical Review of New England Life and Letters 66, no. 3 (1993 Sept): 366-98.
---. Private Woman, Public Stage: Literary Domesticity in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Oxford UP, 1984.

Krumrey, Diane. “On the Frontier of Natural Language with the Eloquent Indians: Hobomok and Hope Leslie.” The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: U of Southern Colorado, 1997.

LaMonaca, Maria. “'She Could Make a Cake As Well As Books . . .': Catharine Sedgwick, Anne Jameson, and the Construction of the Domestic Intellectual.” Women's Writing: The Elizabethan to Victorian Period 2, no. 3 (1995): 235-49.

Loeffelholz, Mary. "Who Killed Lucretia Davidson? Or, Poetry in the Domestic-Tutelary Complex." Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities, New Haven, CT (YJC). 1997 Fall, 10:2, 271-93.

Macdonald, Linda Roberts. The Discarded Daughters of the American Revolution: Catharine Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, and Augusta Evans Wilson. Dissertation: U of Colorado, 1993?

Matter-Seibel, Sabina. “Native Americans, Women, and the Culture of Nationalism in Lydia Maria Child and Catharine Maria Sedgwick.” Early America Re-Explored: New Readings in Colonial, Early National, and Antebellum Culture. Eds. Klaus H. Schmidt and Fritz Fleishman. New York: Peter Lang, 2000.

Merish, Lori. Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature. [See especially Ch. 2, "Gender, Domesticity, and Consumption in the 1830s: Caroline Kirkland, Catharine Sedgwick, and the Feminization of American Consumerism."] Durham: Duke UP, 2000.

Mitchell, Domhnall. “Acts of Intercourse: 'Miscegenation' in Three 19th Century American Novels.” American Studies in Scandinavia 27, no. 2 (1995): 126-41

Murray, Robin L. “Repulsed by Nature: Hope Leslie, Magawisca, and the 'Advancement' of Civilization.” Sycamore: A Journal of American Culture 1, no. 4 (1997 Winter): p. 1; 25¶.

Nelson, Dana. “Sympathy as Strategy in Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” The Culture of Sentiment: Race, Gender, and Sentimentality in Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. Shirley Samuels. New York: Oxford UP, 1992.

Opfermann, Susanne “Lydia Maria Child, James Fenimore Cooper, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick: A Dialogue on Race, Culture, and Gender.” Soft Canons: American Women Writers and Masculine Tradition. Ed. Karen Kilcup. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1999.

Papashvily, Helen Waite. All the Happy Endings. New York: Harper, 1956.

Pattee, F. L. The Feminine Fifties. New York, 1940.

Phelps, C. Deirdre. American Authorship and New York Publishing History, 1827-1842: The Market Experience of Catharine Maria Sedgwick and William Cullen Bryant. Dissertation: Boston U, 1993?

Ritter, Carla R. Insurrection behind the Veil: Religious Heterodoxy in Sedgwick, Child and Stowe. Dissertation: Temple U, 1999.

Ross, Cheri Louise Graves. Transforming Fictional Genres: Five Nineteenth-Century American Feminist Novelists. Dissertation: Purdue U, 1991?

Ross, Cheri Louise. “(Re)Writing the Frontier Romance: Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” College Language Association Journal 39, no. 3 (1996 Mar): 320-40.

Samuels, Shirley. Romances of the Republic: Women, the Family, and Violence in the Literature of the Early American Nation. [See especially Ch. 3, "The Family in the Novel: Cooper and the Domestic Revolution."] New York: Oxford UP, 1996.

Saulsbury, Rebecca R. “Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).” Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Critical Sourcebook. Eds. Denise D. knoght and Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.

Scheiber, Andrew J. “Mastery and Majesty: Subject, Object, and the Power of Authorship in Catharine Sedgwick's 'Cacoethes Scribendi.’” American Transcendental Quarterly 10, no. 1 (1996 Mar): 41-58

Singley, Carol J. “Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie: Radical Frontier Romance.” Desert, Garden, Margin, Range: Literature on the American Frontier. Ed. Eric Heyne. New york: Twayne, 1992.

Stadler, Gustavus. “Magawisca's Body of Knowledge: Nation-Building in Hope Leslie.” Yale Journal of Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities 12, no. 1 (1999 Spring): 41-56
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Steinberg, Stacy A. “'Unexpected and Inconvenient Notice': Domestic Entrapment and Servant Infidelity in The Coopers and Live and Let Live.” Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers 15, no. 1 (1998): 85-91.

Szabo, Liz. “'Pleasure in an Illusion': Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie.” The Image of the American West in Literature, the Media, and Society. Eds. Will Wright and Steven Kaplan. Pueblo, CO: U of Southern Colorado, 1997.

Tawil, Ezra F. “Domestic Frontier Romance, or, How the Sentimental Heroine Became White.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 32, no. 1 (1998 Fall): 99-124.

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Watson, Marsha June. Intertextuality and Early American Women Writers. Dissertation: U of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1997.

Welsh, Mary Michael. Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Her Position in the Literature and Thought of her Time up to 1860. Dissertation: Catholic U, 1937.

Zagarell, Sandra A. Expanding 'America': Lydia Sigourney's Sketch of Connecticut, Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie. Redefining the Political Novel: American Women Writers, 1797-1901. Ed. Sharon M. Harris. Knoxville: U of Tennessee P, 1995. First published: Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 6, no. 2 (1987 Fall): 225-245



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