Dissent and the Daughter in A New England Tale and Hobomok

From: Legacy | Date: October 31, 2005| Author: F, Nancy | Copyright information

The American novel of the 1820s pioneers a new role for a character almost universally fated for doom in earlier literature: the virtuous but disobedient daughter. Catharine Maria Sedgwick's A New England Tale (1822) and Lydia Maria Child's Hobomok (1824) are two novels featuring dutiful heroines who, by contravening parental and religious authority, welcome a new era of Enlightenment into the young republic. The disobedient daughters of Sedgwick and Child bring education, refinement, and ben...

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