Feminizing a Colonial Epic: On Spofford’s “Priscilla” by Daniela Daniele

“…In 1894, Harriet Prescott Spofford parodically replied to that colonial legend with a new love triangle written from the point of view of a pioneer woman who rejected the enslavement of a marriage arranged by others. …”
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“Gestures of Air and Stone”: Translating Ethan Frome into Dance in Cathy Marston’s Snowblind by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau

“…Less than the story of a love triangle, Ethan Frome and Snowblind are both about thwarted emotions, affect trapped in stone, a stream of magma whose burning passions can only be expressed in stony, impenetrable silence—beneath verbal language, through sensations. …”
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