The Peripatetic Nonconformists of Colonial America: Mary Rowlandson and Sarah Kemble Knight
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This essay examines Mary White Rowlandson’s Narrative and Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal, two literary landmarks in the field of early American literature. Both Rowlandson’s Narrative and Knight’s Journal track the singular experiences of puritan goodwomen who move beyond their traditional place in the colonial homestead. Notwithstanding the circumstantial difference between captive Rowlandson’s and businesswoman Knight’s travels from which their narratives were produced, the texts of these two colonial-era women relay their departure from the familiar space of the domestic sphere to a new space that is foreign and sometimes perilous. Consequently, Rowlandson and Knight can be seen as female pioneers of the travel narrative genre, and Rowlandson’s Narrative and Knight’s Journal should thus be prioritized as records from early America of women’s first encounters with social, religious, and economic conditions of an area previously unknown to their gender. Most significant is that these women’s spatial mobility facilitates their separation from the dominant discourse of puritan society and allows them to interrogate and challenge the law of the puritan fathers.
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This essay examines Mary White Rowlandson’s Narrative and Sarah Kemble Knight’s Journal, two literary landmarks in the field of early American literature. Both Rowlandson’s Narrative and Knight’s Journal track the singular experiences of puritan goodwomen who move beyond their traditional place in the colonial homestead. Notwithstanding the circumstantial difference between captive Rowlandson’s and businesswoman Knight’s travels from which their narratives were produced, the texts of these two colonial-era women relay their departure from the familiar space of the domestic sphere to a new space that is foreign and sometimes perilous. Consequently, Rowlandson and Knight can be seen as female pioneers of the travel narrative genre, and Rowlandson’s Narrative and Knight’s Journal should thus be prioritized as records from early America of women’s first encounters with social, religious, and economic conditions of an area previously unknown to their gender. Most significant is that these women’s spatial mobility facilitates their separation from the dominant discourse of puritan society and allows them to interrogate and challenge the law of the puritan fathers.
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