Date of Award
1-1-2014
Language
English
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
College/School/Department
Department of English
Content Description
1 online resource (iii, 70 pages)
Dissertation/Thesis Chair
Ronald A. Bosco
Keywords
A New-England Tale, America, Antebellum, Historicization, Hope Leslie, Sedgwick, Religion and politics, Religion in literature, Politics in literature
Subject Categories
American Literature
Abstract
This thesis investigates Catharine Maria Sedgwick's situating of New England religion, political issues, and social class structures in A New-England Tale (1822) and Hope Leslie or Early Times in Massachusetts (1827). A New-England Tale models the convergence of morality, religion, education and politics in nineteenth-century America in order to awaken a sense of national pride, and in doing so places a priority on political independence and education. Hope Leslie models morality and traces the correlation of religion and politics as they served to promote Puritan civic responsibility in seventeenth-century New England, and in doing so places a priority on moral integrity and a cultural shift toward autonomy.
Recommended Citation
Grant, Lisa D., "Catharine Maria Sedgwick's historicization of antebellum landscapes and character in "A New-England Tale" and "Hope Leslie"" (2014). Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024). 1137.
https://scholarsarchive.library.albany.edu/legacy-etd/1137