1st Edition
Secondary Heroines in Nineteenth-Century British and American Novels
By Jennifer Camden
Copyright 2010
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
190 Pages
by
Routledge
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Taking up works by Samuel Richardson, James Fenimore Cooper, Sir Walter Scott, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, among others, Jennifer B. Camden examines the role of female characters who, while embodying the qualities associated with heroines, fail to achieve this status in the story. These "secondary heroines," often the friend or sister of the primary heroine, typically disappear from the action... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secondary Heroine and the Origins of the Novel; Chapter 2 Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance; Chapter 3 Cooper's Man without a Cross: Wealth, Race, and Religion in The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans; Chapter 4 Magawisca's Missing Arm: Absence and Replacement in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Does the Historical Romance Make Us Want What We Can't Have?;
Biography
Jennifer Camden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, USA.
'In both its meticulous readings and its thought-provoking emphasis on marginalised forms of femininity in British and American novels, this study upends any easy assumptions about female character’s ’minor’ roles. Camden’s work admirably engages the broad concerns of feminism, nationalism and the history of the novel, making it a useful resource for scholars of any and all of these fields.' Scottish Literary Review
