1. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?
2. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?
3. What does Karcher identify as the primary thrust and intent of the seduction plot, which had been the focus of the American women novelists prior to Sedgwick (12)?
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