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The Crisis of Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home

The Crisis of Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home Bridget Bennett University of Leeds e Th Crisis of Restoration Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home Catastrophic loss marks Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 captivity narra - tive from almost its opening lines. Toward the end of the first remove she laments her fate in the following long sentence: All was gone, my Husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay; and to add to my grief, the India t no sld me they would kill him as he came homeward) my Children gone, my Relations and Friends gone, our House and home and all our comforts within door, and wi - th out, all was gone, (except my life) and I knew not but the next moment that might go too. (Rowlandson 71) This moment of sorrowful recognition opens with an expression of incl- u sion and continues by delineating a set of losses. She starts and finishes with a totality—“all”—and moves from intimate human relationships— “my Children . . . Relations . . . Friends”—to material objects that carry an ae ff ctive load as well as being signifiers of status and well- b eing—“our House and home and all our comforts.” They bring mental solace as well http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

The Crisis of Restoration: Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home

Early American Literature , Volume 49 (2) – Jun 27, 2014

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University of North Carolina Press
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Bridget Bennett University of Leeds e Th Crisis of Restoration Mary Rowlandson’s Lost Home Catastrophic loss marks Mary Rowlandson’s 1682 captivity narra - tive from almost its opening lines. Toward the end of the first remove she laments her fate in the following long sentence: All was gone, my Husband gone (at least separated from me, he being in the Bay; and to add to my grief, the India t no sld me they would kill him as he came homeward) my Children gone, my Relations and Friends gone, our House and home and all our comforts within door, and wi - th out, all was gone, (except my life) and I knew not but the next moment that might go too. (Rowlandson 71) This moment of sorrowful recognition opens with an expression of incl- u sion and continues by delineating a set of losses. She starts and finishes with a totality—“all”—and moves from intimate human relationships— “my Children . . . Relations . . . Friends”—to material objects that carry an ae ff ctive load as well as being signifiers of status and well- b eing—“our House and home and all our comforts.” They bring mental solace as well

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Early American LiteratureUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jun 27, 2014

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