Table of Contents

Catharine Maria Sedgwick in Literary History (Carolyn L. Karcher, Temple (University); Behind the Veil? Catharine Sedgwick and Anonymous Publication (Melissa J. Homestead, University of Oklahoma); "A Powerful and Thrilling Voice": The Significance of Crazy Bet (Victoria Clements, College of Southern Maryland); To "Act" and "Transact": Redwood's Revisionary Heroines (Lucinda Daemon-Bach (Salem State College); "My Sister, My Sister!": The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick's Hope Leslie (Judith Fetterley, University at Albany, State University of New York); Disinterest as Moral Corrective in Clarence's Cultural Critique (Patricia Larson Kalayjian, California State University, Dominguez Hills); "A Slave Story I Began and Abandoned": Sedgwick's Antislavery Manuscript (Karen Woods Weierman, Worcester State College); Mischief, Insanity, Memetics, and Agency in The Linwoods; or, "Sixty Years Since" in America (Robert Daly, University at Buffalo, State University of New York); The Collection as Literary Form: Sedgwick's Tales and Sketches of 1835 (John Austin); Sedgwick's American Poor (Sondra Smith Gates, University of Wisconsin-Fond du Lac); Sedgwick and the "Art" of Conversation (Charlene Avallone); Tourism and Visual Subjection in Letters from Abroad and "An Incident at Rome" (Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire); "From Home to Home": Sedgwick's Study of Deviance (Jenifer Banks, Michigan State University); "Equal to Either Fortune": Sedgwick's Married or Single? and Feminism (Deborah Gussman, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey); The Limits of Authority: Catharine Maria Sedgwick and the Politics of Resistance (Susan K. Harris, Pennsylvania State University)