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The Pequot Conspirator

Ed White
American Literature (2009) 81 (3): 439–467.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2009-022
Published: 01 September 2009
...Ed White Historical interpretations of the Anglo-Pequot War have oscillated between ethnographic and conspiratorial explanations, arguing that it resulted either from cultural differences and misunderstandings or from scheming and provocation. But seventeenth-century accounts of the conflict...
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“Why Should You Be So Furious?”: Fantasies of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Writings

Kristina Bross
American Literature (2016) 88 (2): 213–240.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3533278
Published: 01 June 2016
... the subject of anti-English violence half a world away in order to lay claim to a global English identity. The essay compares the visual representation of that East Indian violence with a well-known image of violence in New England, John Underhill’s figure of the Mystic Fort massacre of the Pequot War...
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Shadows of Mashantucket: William Apess and the Representation of Pequot Place

Mark Rifkin
American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 691–714.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1901409
Published: 01 December 2012
... designated by the colony of Connecticut as Pequot land in 1666, Mashantucket was the second reservation created in the wake of the Pequot War for those who would come to be called the Western Pequots. In 1637, English forces principally from the Massachusetts Bay Colony attacked the Pequot village...
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What to the American Indian Is the Fourth of July? Moving beyond Abolitionist Rhetoric in William Apess's Eulogy on King Philip

Drew Lopenzina
American Literature (2010) 82 (4): 673–699.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2010-041
Published: 01 December 2010
... enough for Native Americans to be kept in bondage throughout the colonial era, particularly following periods of war. Apess’s ancestors had been captured and shipped to Bermuda to work on sugar plantations fol- lowing the 1636–37 Pequot War. The Pequot children not killed in this war were kept...
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Toward a Literature of Landed Resistance: Land’s Agency in American Literature, Law, and History

Kyle Keeler
American Literature (2024) 96 (1): 1–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11092045
Published: 01 March 2024
... to assist the colony of Connecticut upon any occasion when their peace shall be disturbed with any enemy” (Great Britain 1769: 40). Here Uncas has clearly bound himself and later generations to the English as allies, calling attention to English and Mohegan partnership during the Pequot War (Hauptman 1993...
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“For Ought Is Known”: Hearsay, Antislavery, and the Golden Rule in Colonial North America

Jeffrey Glover
American Literature 11792387.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-11792387
Published: 07 March 2025
... prestige attached to the epistemology of sensory observation and rsthand testimony, which enabled them to cite their own experiences and observations as proof of just war. Thus, John Underhill (1638: 1 2), an English military captain who led an attack on women and children in the Pequot War (1636 38...
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Hymnic Placemaking: Samson Occom’s Collection and Brothertown Orientations

Bradley Dubos
American Literature (2023) 95 (4): 607–638.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10950727
Published: 01 December 2023
..., Connecticut, and sang from Indian Melodies (1845), a nineteenth-century tunebook composed by Brothertown author Thomas Commuck. They were joined by members of nine other Native communities (Lumbee, Nehantic, Ohkay Owingeh, Pequot, Poarch Creek, Schaghticoke, Shinnecock, Wirrarika, and Yaqui) as well as non...
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Brief Mention

American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 857–863.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329758
Published: 01 December 2015
.... The Life of William Apess, Pequot. By Philip F. Gura. Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina Press. 2015. xvii, 190 pp. Cloth, $26.00; e-book, $25.99. Although he was the first Native American to publish an autobiography, Apess is often unknown beyond scholars of nineteenth-century American...
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American Literature Index to Volume 84 (March 2012–December 2012)

American Literature (2012) 84 (4): 897–914.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-2082227
Published: 01 December 2012
... Ecocriticism), 234–41. Allred, Jeff. Review: Genter, Late Modernism: Art, Culture, and Politics in Cold War America, 882–84. Review: Wilson, Melting-Pot Modernism, 882–84. Andrews, Lindsey. Review: Ahad, Freud Upside Down: African American Lit- erature and Psychoanalytic Culture, 880–82. Review...
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Strange Nation: Literary Nationalism and Cultural Conflict in the Age of Poe Novel Nostalgias: The Aesthetics of Antagonism in Nineteenth-Century U.S. Literature

Kevin Modestino
American Literature (2017) 89 (3): 627–629.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4160918
Published: 01 September 2017
... of reason. A disease of soldiers unable to function in war and paralyzed by their desires for home, nostalgia was also attributed to slaves as a crippling form of depression derived in part from their displacement from Africa but more fundamentally by their racial being. While this was a disciplinary...
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Islam, Puritanism, and Secular Time

Christopher Trigg
American Literature (2018) 90 (4): 815–839.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-7208560
Published: 01 December 2018
... in America from Roger Williams to the Present , edited by Beneke Chris and Grenda Christopher S. , 85 – 100 . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield . Stern Jessica . 2011 . “ A Key into The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution : Roger Williams, the Pequot War, and the Origins of Toleration...
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Frances Whipple, Elleanor Eldridge, and the Politics of Interracial Collaboration

Joycelyn Moody
American Literature (2011) 83 (4): 689–717.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1437189
Published: 01 December 2011
... Who died in the first Seminole war Rather than separate out the “so-­called blacks” from within. —Jennifer Lisa Vest, “Somebody Forgot to Tell Somebody Something” (2007) Very little scholarship has been...
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Imperative Reading: Brothertown and Sister Fowler

Ana Schwartz
American Literature (2022) 94 (4): 595–622.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10341691
Published: 01 December 2022
..., and Pequot territory, visiting relations that included Esther Poquiantup Fowler and her family. Fowler’s year of birth remains uncertain, but her mother, born in 1725, was of Occom’s generation. It seems likely that during the 1750s, the period of Occom’s itinerant leadership and pedagogy, Fowler was a child...
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“Then Began He to Rant and Threaten”: Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative

Pamela Lougheed
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 287–313.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-287
Published: 01 June 2002
...Pamela Lougheed Duke University Press 2002 Pamela ‘‘Then Began He to Rant and Threaten Lougheed Indian Malice and Individual Liberty in Mary Rowlandson’s Captivity Narrative The most notorious battle of King Philip’s War is the Great Swamp...
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Colonial Transformations: The Cultural Production of the New Atlantic World, 1580-1640; The Story of A: The Alphabetization of America from“ The New England Primer” to “The Scarlet Letter.”; The Consent of the Governed: The Lockean Legacy in Early American Culture

Laura Henigman
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 403–405.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-403
Published: 01 June 2002
... of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While Underhill is often subverbal—Mazel claims 434 American Literature Underhill’s map of a Pequot village suggests ‘‘the vagina...
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Return Passages: Great American Travel Writing, 1780-1910; Crossing Boundaries: Postmodern Travel Literature

Julie Prebel
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 406–408.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-406
Published: 01 June 2002
... text that can help ground a stable American identity’’ (167). Predictably, this stable identity is in the ser- vice of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While...
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American Sympathy: Men, Friendship, and Literature in the New Nation; Not in Sisterhood: Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Zona Gale, and the Politics of Female Authorship

Barbara Ryan
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 408–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-408
Published: 01 June 2002
... text that can help ground a stable American identity’’ (167). Predictably, this stable identity is in the ser- vice of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While...
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James Whitcomb Riley: A Life

Thomas C. Johnson
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 410–411.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-410
Published: 01 June 2002
... text that can help ground a stable American identity’’ (167). Predictably, this stable identity is in the ser- vice of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While...
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Stephen Crane's Blue Badge of Courage; The Material Unconscious: American Amusement, Stephen Crane, and the Economies of Play

John Clendenning
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 411–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-411
Published: 01 June 2002
... of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While Underhill is often subverbal—Mazel claims 434 American Literature Underhill’s map of a Pequot village suggests ‘‘the vagina...
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Sentimental Materialism: Gender, Commodity Culture, and Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Cindy Weinstein
American Literature (2002) 74 (2): 413–415.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-74-2-413
Published: 01 June 2002
... text that can help ground a stable American identity’’ (167). Predictably, this stable identity is in the ser- vice of white capitalist patriarchy. Mazel examines this process through John Underhill’s reports and drawings from the Pequot War and Mary Rowland- son’s captivity narrative. While...
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