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1. Why does Karcher relate one early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides for early American women writers (10)?

Karcher reports an early critic as stating that Sedgwick provides a role model and legitimation for early American women writers. Having done the work, she showed that it could be done by women.

2. What does Karcher cite as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” (10)?

Karcher cites as Sedgwick’s major “influence[s] on the domestic novelists of the 1850s” her attention to local customs and speech. Her characterizations and polemical projects also influenced the later writers.

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)?

Karcher notes that the primary thrust of the seduction plot is the pursuit of a favored heroine by a disreputable character. She notes, too, that the seduction plot is a reaction by the middle class to the depredations of the aristocracy.

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