Hope Leslie Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts

Name: Hope Leslie Or, Early Times in the Massachusetts
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ISBN: 9780813512228

ISBN-10: 0813512220

ISBN-13: 9780813512228

Edition: 1987

Authors: Catherine Maria Sedgwick, Mary Kelley

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Set in seventeenth-century New England, Hope Leslie (1827) portrays early American life and celebrates the role of women in building the republic. A counterpoint to the novels of James Fenimore Cooper, it challenges the conventional view of Indians, tackles interracial marriage and cross-cultural friendship, and claims for women their rightful place in history. At the center of the novel are two friends. Hope Leslie, a spirited thinker in a repressive Puritan society, fights for justice for the Indians and asserts the independence of women. Magawisca, the passionate daughter of a Pequot chief, braves her father's wrath to save a white man and risks her freedom to reunite Hope with her…

Book details

List price: $38.95
Copyright year: 1987
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 5/1/1987
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Mary Kelley is Ruth Bordin Collegiate Professor of History, American Culture, and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan. She is author or editor of several books, including Learning to Stand and Speak: Women, Education, and Public Life in Ameri