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The books Walden and other Writings by Henry David Thoreau and Hope Leslie or, Early Times in the Massachusetts by Catharine Maria Sedgwick both have many overlapping themes. This paper is going to focus on their shared opinions about materialism. Both Sedgwick and Thoreau condemn living for materials, insisting that there are better, more worthy things in life. These are the “higher things” since both authors agree that there are things morally higher than materials. Catharine Maria Sedgwick views

“Charmed Circle” of sexuality, an idea that illustrates the binaries that exist in our perceptions of sex such as “heterosexual/homosexual” and “generational/cross-generational” (Rubin 280). Another theorist, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, identifies in her book Epistemology of the Closet a fundamental principle to our understanding of sexuality: “that we are all different from one another” (Sedgwick 22). As both theorists proclaim,

Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s A New-England Tale and Hope Leslie - Opening Doors for Women Limited opportunities for women to share their opinions publicly throughout the Nineteenth century caused an abundance of females to communicate their ideas through writing. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was among the first of American authors to publish historical and other fiction. Much of her work deals with the role of white women in society, especially involving the Cult of Domesticity or True Womanhood

In “Insurmountable barriers to our union’: Homosocial male bonding, homosexual panic, and death on the ice in Frankenstein” James Holt McGavran makes a compelling argument about the nature of Frankenstein’s creature in Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein.” He argues that the creature represents his creators repressed sexuality and that Victor’s rejection of the creature stems from “homosexual panic.” The revulsion Victor feels is due to being faced with a physical manifestation of his sexuality and being

problem of being a woman or being the first American poet, but...fearing she has no right to speak, of fearing her voice cannot insert itself into English literary history” (23). Another writer that supports Hall’s claim is Catherine Sedgwick: “Sedgwick’s ability to champion an expansion of woman’s sphere beyond domestic settings was blunted by “deep inner restraints” that derived from her

October 21, 2012 The Barriers of Life In the novel, Hope Leslie, Catherine Maria Sedgwick uses personal analysis as well as historical information to create an uncannily realistic tale of romance, racial prejudice and religion. Throughout the book, Sedgwick emphasizes relations between the Native American peoples and the European Americans living in Massachusetts in the 1640’s. She is able to do this specifically with the characters of Magawisca, the Native American slave with the will of a

difficult aspect of life, also everyone grieving process is different, and the loss of a loved one can happen in a moment but it can last a lifetime. Many writers like Mary Rowlandson on her narrative of the captivity and restoration, Katharine Sedgwick’s on “Hope Leslie”, Edgar A. Poe’s on “Fall of the House of Usher” and Harriet Jacob’s on “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” have written about the loss of a loved one to death and how to carry on with their own lives. Dealing effectively and

Sedgwick uses the Governor’s response to Everell to show that an individual in a Puritan society is unable to interfere with Puritan leadership even when justice is on the line. An additional way in which Everell’s character points out Sedgwick’s views on Puritanism is through his innocent question asking his friend and the Governor’s niece, Esther Downing, to drink wine with him in order to help “‘mend her appetite’” (149). Even though he asks this of Esther with the motive of helping

The erotic has been a source of major discussion within queer and feminist theories. Indeed, much of the discussions surrounding homosexuality or queerness in general focus on ideas of sexuality and the erotic. It has been recognized as of late as a major force in people’s lives, something that permeates nearly every aspect of their lives. However, with the rise of discussions surrounding the erotic, the concept of the nonerotic has been left by the wayside, so to speak. There are many discussions

problem of being a woman or being the first American poet, but...fearing she has no right to speak, of fearing her voice cannot insert itself into English literary history” (23). Another writer that supports Hall’s claim is Catherine Sedgwick, “Sedgwick’s ability to champion an expansion of woman’s sphere beyond domestic settings was blunted by “deep inner restraints” that derived