Caroline Wigginton
Biographic Data
| ID | 455485 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Wigginton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Wigginton |
| SIGNATURE | WIGGINTON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Time of Anarchy
Reviewed by: Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America by Matthew Kruer Caroline Wigginton (bio) Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America by Matthew Kruer Harvard University Press, 2021 who were the susquehannocks? Most scholars of seventeenth-century eastern North America have encountered the name of this Indigenous confederacy—whose territories during this period wer…
Hymncraft
Hymncraft is the composition of a material text with songs of praise and veneration for the sacred relationships between communities, place, and beings, human and nonhuman. For Mohegan Joseph Johnson in the 1770s and Brothertown Narragansett Thomas Commuck in the 1840s, hymncraft was an instrument for choreographing new visions of community in order to counter colonization's destructive fragmentation of their peoples and homelands in the North Am…
A Storied Place
This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center of a comparative Indigenous-colonizer literary analysis and argue that the manuscript of Euro-American Jonathan Carver's 1760s travel narrative written in the region is in consti…
Unscripted America
Reviewed by: Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation by Sarah Rivett Caroline Wigginton (bio) Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation sarah rivett Oxford University Press, 2017 400 pp. European colonization of North America employed many tactics, including the devaluation and eradication of Indigenous languages. Yet, as Sarah Rivett underscores in the opening pages of her…
Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
August 01 2018 Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings. By SarahOsborn. Edited by Catherine A.Brekus. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xli, 402. $40.00 cloth.) Caroline Wigginton Caroline Wigginton Caroline Wigginton is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America (2016) and “Vexing Motherhood and Interrac…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830
In “Transatlantic Romanticisms,” her chapter for this edited collection, Colleen Glenney Boggs asks a sequence of questions: (1) What is the impact of English authors and texts in America, and vice versa? (2) Does Romanticism foster a shared transatlantic culture, or generate national and regional specificity? ... (3) What are the gender politics of transatlantic Romanticism? (4) What is the importance of slavery and race ... for our understandin…
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions
This book restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. This book puts eighteenth-century v…
Martha Fowke Sansom (1689–1736)
As a young woman, Martha Fowke Sansom was fascinated with seventeenth-century French novels that celebrated Platonic love. She wrote her first love poems for her father’s mistresses and published several of them beginning in 1711. In 1720, Sansom published Epistles of Clio and Strephon, a romantic poetic correspondence with a man named William Bond. At the age of 34, she wrote her autobiography, Clio: or, a Secret History of the Life and Amours o…
Leonora Sansay (1773–?)
Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo is a novel written in 1808 by Leonora Sansay. With the Haitian Revolution’s final months as backdrop, the novel offers a disturbing vision of a lawless and chaotic event that gives women a fleeting moment to claim their dignity and perhaps their freedom as well. This chapter features excerpts from Secret History.
Francois Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (ca. 1743–1803)
Haiti, originally the French sugar plantation colony of Saint-Domingue, was the first Black-majority republic in the western hemisphere. The African-descended peoples of Saint-Domingue began to resist colonial domination, culminating in a series of slave revolts in the 1790s that enabled Blacks to control almost one-third of the island. At France’s National Convention of 1794, slavery was abolished and equal rights granted to Black men across the…
Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700–1767)
Coosaponakeesa, the daughter of a white trader and a Creek woman, worked as an interpreter and diplomat for James Oglethorpe, governor of the English colony of Georgia. In that capacity, Coosaponakeesa played an important role in Oglethorpe’s negotiations with the local Yamacraw Indians and the Creeks. When Georgia’s officials refused to adequately compensate her for her services and expenses, Coosaponakeesa waged a legal war that lasted more tha…
Transatlantic feminisms in the age of revolutions
This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present a panorama of the diverse, vibrant world facing women during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This collection recovers the revolutionary mome…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830
In “Transatlantic Romanticisms,” her chapter for this edited collection, Colleen Glenney Boggs asks a sequence of questions: (1) What is the impact of English authors and texts in America, and vice versa? (2) Does Romanticism foster a shared transatlantic culture, or generate national and regional specificity? ... (3) What are the gender politics of transatlantic Romanticism? (4) What is the importance of slavery and race ... for our understandin…
A Storied Place
This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center of a comparative Indigenous-colonizer literary analysis and argue that the manuscript of Euro-American Jonathan Carver's 1760s travel narrative written in the region is in consti…
Transatlantic feminisms in the age of revolutions
This volume brings together an unprecedented gathering of women and men from the Atlantic World during the Age of Revolutions. Featuring hard-to-find writings from colonists and colonized, citizens and slaves, religious visionaries and scandal-dogged actresses, these wide-ranging selections present a panorama of the diverse, vibrant world facing women during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This collection recovers the revolutionary mome…
Transatlantic Feminisms in the Age of Revolutions
This book restores a lost chapter in the history of feminism and illuminates the complexity of the rights debates of the eighteenth century. As the English language followed the routes of trade and colonialism to become the lingua franca of much of the Atlantic world, women who experienced dispossession and violence on the one hand, and new freedoms and opportunities on the other, wrote about their experiences. This book puts eighteenth-century v…
Martha Fowke Sansom (1689–1736)
As a young woman, Martha Fowke Sansom was fascinated with seventeenth-century French novels that celebrated Platonic love. She wrote her first love poems for her father’s mistresses and published several of them beginning in 1711. In 1720, Sansom published Epistles of Clio and Strephon, a romantic poetic correspondence with a man named William Bond. At the age of 34, she wrote her autobiography, Clio: or, a Secret History of the Life and Amours o…
Leonora Sansay (1773–?)
Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo is a novel written in 1808 by Leonora Sansay. With the Haitian Revolution’s final months as backdrop, the novel offers a disturbing vision of a lawless and chaotic event that gives women a fleeting moment to claim their dignity and perhaps their freedom as well. This chapter features excerpts from Secret History.
Francois Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverture (ca. 1743–1803)
Haiti, originally the French sugar plantation colony of Saint-Domingue, was the first Black-majority republic in the western hemisphere. The African-descended peoples of Saint-Domingue began to resist colonial domination, culminating in a series of slave revolts in the 1790s that enabled Blacks to control almost one-third of the island. At France’s National Convention of 1794, slavery was abolished and equal rights granted to Black men across the…
Coosaponakeesa/Mary Musgrove Mathews Bosomworth (Creek; ca. 1700–1767)
Coosaponakeesa, the daughter of a white trader and a Creek woman, worked as an interpreter and diplomat for James Oglethorpe, governor of the English colony of Georgia. In that capacity, Coosaponakeesa played an important role in Oglethorpe’s negotiations with the local Yamacraw Indians and the Creeks. When Georgia’s officials refused to adequately compensate her for her services and expenses, Coosaponakeesa waged a legal war that lasted more tha…
Transatlantic Literary Studies, 1660-1830
In “Transatlantic Romanticisms,” her chapter for this edited collection, Colleen Glenney Boggs asks a sequence of questions: (1) What is the impact of English authors and texts in America, and vice versa? (2) Does Romanticism foster a shared transatlantic culture, or generate national and regional specificity? ... (3) What are the gender politics of transatlantic Romanticism? (4) What is the importance of slavery and race ... for our understandin…
Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings
August 01 2018 Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings Sarah Osborn's Collected Writings. By SarahOsborn. Edited by Catherine A.Brekus. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2017. Pp. xli, 402. $40.00 cloth.) Caroline Wigginton Caroline Wigginton Caroline Wigginton is assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi. She is the author of In the Neighborhood: Women's Publication in Early America (2016) and “Vexing Motherhood and Interrac…
Materials and Methods in Native American and Indigenous Studies
Nearly two centuries ago, Native scholars and activists published calls for histories of their people that emphasized their humanity and agency and engaged Indigenous intellectual traditions. Renewing and extending their calls, this William and Mary Quarterly and Early American Literature joint Forum challenges early American studies to embrace the materials and methods of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS). In the Forum introduction, …
A Storied Place
This essay recognizes the totality of practices by which Native peoples of the upper Mississippi River valley for centuries oriented themselves to place as an Indigenous map. After limning the map and its material and nonmaterial components, I then place it at the center of a comparative Indigenous-colonizer literary analysis and argue that the manuscript of Euro-American Jonathan Carver's 1760s travel narrative written in the region is in consti…
Unscripted America
Reviewed by: Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation by Sarah Rivett Caroline Wigginton (bio) Unscripted America: Indigenous Languages and the Origins of a Literary Nation sarah rivett Oxford University Press, 2017 400 pp. European colonization of North America employed many tactics, including the devaluation and eradication of Indigenous languages. Yet, as Sarah Rivett underscores in the opening pages of her…
Hymncraft
Hymncraft is the composition of a material text with songs of praise and veneration for the sacred relationships between communities, place, and beings, human and nonhuman. For Mohegan Joseph Johnson in the 1770s and Brothertown Narragansett Thomas Commuck in the 1840s, hymncraft was an instrument for choreographing new visions of community in order to counter colonization's destructive fragmentation of their peoples and homelands in the North Am…
Time of Anarchy
Reviewed by: Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America by Matthew Kruer Caroline Wigginton (bio) Time of Anarchy: Indigenous Power and the Crisis of Colonialism in Early America by Matthew Kruer Harvard University Press, 2021 who were the susquehannocks? Most scholars of seventeenth-century eastern North America have encountered the name of this Indigenous confederacy—whose territories during this period wer…
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