Susan Howe approaches early American literature as pet and critic,
blending scholarship with passionate commitment and unique view of
her subject. The Birth-mark traces the collusive relationships
among tradition, the constitution of critical editions, literary
history and criticism, the institutionalized roles of poetry and
prose, and the status of gender. Through an examination of the
texts and editorial histories of Thomas Shepard's conversion
narratives, the captivity narrative of Mary Rowlandson, and the
poetry of Emily Dickinson, Howe reads our intellectual inheritance
as a series of civil wars, where each text is a wilderness in which
a strange and lawless author confronts interpreters and editors
eager for settlement. In a concluding interview, Howe comments on
her approach and recounts some the crucial biographical events that
sparked her interest in early American literature.
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