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Mary Rowlandson Flashcards

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Rowlandson: full title

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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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Rowlandson: born

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1636

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Rowlandson: dies

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1711

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Rowlandson: written

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1682

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Rowlandson: centres

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Text of Bible

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Rowlandson: trauma

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redemption and restoration

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Rowlandson: folklore

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local legend

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Rowlandson: ideology, community, identity

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She calls the Indian attack a “raid” but never refers to a “war.” Shaping white identity with the Indian Other

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Rowlandson: commerce

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She eventually begins to participate in the econ: knits, etc.

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Rowlandson: captivity narrative, development

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Hers is chief; spiritual—they grow more secular and pulpy as frontier expands and movement is less Puritan

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Rowlandson: other genre terms?

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  • Heroism, high adventure
  • Biblical narrative (myth?)
  • Sermon
  • Spiritual autobiography
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Rowlandson: tone

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Pious; humble; longsuffering, faithful

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Rowlandson: style

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Plain, with devotional passion

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Rowlandson: her daughter

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dies

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Rowlandson: she is separated from

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her son

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Rowlandson: signs of God’s wrath

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against the Indians: constant starvation. Against the colonists: Indians

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Rowlandson: survival versus escape

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Survival permissible since it allows for continued chastisement from God; but she doesn’t attempt to escape because that would also resist God’s plan to chastise and humble and teach her.

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Rowlandson: signs

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When would-be escapees (who tried to convince her to escape with them) are caught and brutally murdered, she sees this as evidence she’s done right.

19
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Rowlandson: she obtains a

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Bible. This is crucial.

20
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Rowlandson: thriving in captivity?

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Becomes thriving under God’s tutelage. There are moments in which she seems to thrive—food has never tasted so good (as when she eats after starving)—signs of God’s instruction taking effect

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Rowlandson: wilderness

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Biblical topos; a place of wandering, suffering, learning, punishment. Also a place where one is subjected to the devil.

22
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Rowlandson: her husband is

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minister of the town of Lancaster

23
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Rowlandson: formal features

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Divided into “removes” (there are many)

24
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Rowlandson: how it’s received

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One of the most popular prose works of the 17th c. here and in England—first “best seller” in American history

25
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Rowlandson: published with

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a sermon of her husband’s

26
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Rowlandson: as author

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this is her first book; she’s not an author; not just trying to get attention or money.

27
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Rowlandson: born where?

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In England, probably brought to colonies at a young age.

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Rowlandson: her father was a

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wealthy landholder in Massachusetts Bay Colony

29
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Rowlandson: the raid happens

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February 1676

30
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Rowlandson: she is ransomed in

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May 1676

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Rowlandson: she is ransomed for

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20 pounds

32
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Rowlandson: King Philip’s real name is

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Metacomet

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Rowlandson: “King Philip’s War” started because

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colonists want to buy Wampanoag land; they don’t comply; Plymouth Colony captures Wampanoag chief in 1664; he dies in captivity; Metacomet becomes chief.

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Rowlandson: Metacomet agrees to Plymouth C’s demands to purchase land, but colonists keep

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encroaching

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Rowlandson: in 1671 colonists demand Metacomet

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answer for his “aggression,” though it’s their fault

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Rowlandson: “King Philip’s War” officially declared in

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1675

37
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Rowlandson: colonial alliance

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All colonies unite in King Philip’s War

38
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Rowlandson: King Philip’s War lasts

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3 years

39
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Rowlandson: how many colonists die in KPW? Indians?

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600; 3,000

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Rowlandson: influences what fiction

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Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans; Faulkner’s Sanctuary

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Rowlandson: “Wait on the Lord, be…”

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“of good courage, and He shall strengthen thee.”

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Rowlandson: an important concept to Puritans generally is “merciful…”

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“affliction”

43
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Rowlandson: the Nancy thesis

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she is reconciling her subjectivity to God to her subjectivity to the Indians, negotiating a narrative to reconcile these two.

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Rowlandson: what two things does R take control of by writing this?

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  1. people’s understanding of the facts of her captivity (e.g. that the Indians didn’t lay a hand on her physically). 2. interpretation of the event (God working in her life as opposed to her downfall signaling her own wickedness)

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