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Imperial Pedagogy: Susanna Rowson's Columbus for Young Ladies

Imperial Pedagogy: Susanna Rowson's Columbus for Young Ladies jenny heil TexasA&M­CorpusChristi Imperial Pedagogy Susanna Rowson's Columbus for Young Ladies About a year before Captain James Cook's infamous death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779, he sailed into the Pacific Northwest in the hopes of finding a passageway connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Cook believed his discovery would make trade routes between England and America more direct. Until the construction of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century, merchants from England and New England had to sail around Cape Horn to reach the northwest--where they hoped to collect some of the wealth that Cook's published accounts suggested was available through the region's fur trade. One such merchant was Robert Haswell,1 the brother of Susanna Haswell Rowson--whose novel CharlotteTemple (1791) has gained her prominence in American literary histories in the past twenty years. During the 1790s, Haswell sailed with the crew of the ColumbiaRediviva on fur trade expeditions that, according to Lucinda Joy Herrick, helped to establish Massachusetts's future economic base. Such ventures in the Pacific kept the New England economy going after the United States broke away from the British mercantile system (Herrick 17, 158). During the tercentennial of Columbus's so-called discovery of America, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

Imperial Pedagogy: Susanna Rowson's Columbus for Young Ladies

Heil, Jenny.
Early American Literature , Volume 47 (3) – Oct 26, 2012
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jenny heil TexasA&M­CorpusChristi Imperial Pedagogy Susanna Rowson's Columbus for Young Ladies About a year before Captain James Cook's infamous death in the Hawaiian Islands in 1779, he sailed into the Pacific Northwest in the hopes of finding a passageway connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. Cook believed his discovery would make trade routes between England and America more direct. Until the construction of the Panama Canal in the early twentieth century, merchants from England and New England had to sail around Cape Horn to reach the northwest--where they hoped to collect some of the wealth that Cook's published accounts suggested was available through the region's fur trade. One such merchant was Robert Haswell,1 the brother of Susanna Haswell Rowson--whose novel CharlotteTemple (1791) has gained her prominence in American literary histories in the past twenty years. During the 1790s, Haswell sailed with the crew of the ColumbiaRediviva on fur trade expeditions that, according to Lucinda Joy Herrick, helped to establish Massachusetts's future economic base. Such ventures in the Pacific kept the New England economy going after the United States broke away from the British mercantile system (Herrick 17, 158). During the tercentennial of Columbus's so-called discovery of America,

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