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Book Review Of Jared Gardner's The Rise And Fall Of Early American Magazine Culture, Sarah Thompson
Book Review Of Jared Gardner's The Rise And Fall Of Early American Magazine Culture, Sarah Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
Book Review of Jared Gardner's The Rise and Fall of Early American Magazine Culture" (2012)
"For A Single Lady To Travel": Geographic Mobility And Female Independence In Leonora Sansay's Secret History And Laura, Sarah E. Thompson
"For A Single Lady To Travel": Geographic Mobility And Female Independence In Leonora Sansay's Secret History And Laura, Sarah E. Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
In contrasting the comparative success of the worldlier, more sophisticated Clara and Mary in Secret History with the pathetic fate of the eponymous protagonist in Laura, Sansay presents geographic mobility as an essential facet in the successful development of individual female agency for the women of Early America. Although Sansay does not wholly reject the values associated with a traditional feminine role, particularly in regards to concerns about sexual morality, Sansay ultimately creates in Laura and Secret History a world in which the more experience a woman has, the better equipped she is to respond to the inequalities of power …
Teaching Philosophy Statement, Sarah E. Thompson
Teaching Philosophy Statement, Sarah E. Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
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Book Review Of Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism And Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Sarah E. Thompson
Book Review Of Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism And Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Sarah E. Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
Book Review of Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction (2004)
"The Celebrated, Reverend, And Wondrous Joshua Pentateuch": Anti-Methodist Parody In The New Monk (1798), Sarah E. Thompson
"The Celebrated, Reverend, And Wondrous Joshua Pentateuch": Anti-Methodist Parody In The New Monk (1798), Sarah E. Thompson
Sarah E. Thompson
The Gothic novel The New Monk (1798) offers a fascinating parody of the Gothic excesses in Lewis’s The Monk (1796), but The New Monk does not draw only on the Gothic tradition. Instead, the author of The New Monk uses common tropes of the anti-Methodist satire to adapt anti-Catholic elements of The Monk into an attack specifically targeted at the Methodist movement, which is personified in The New Monk in the character of Joshua Pentateuch.