Duncan Faherty

This seems like a much stronger and much more manageable seminar paper. I think the revised proposal stakes a more solid foundation to pursue. Looking forward to the unfolding

The bullet points make sense to me, and I look forward to this unfolding

I like this a great deal, although you say much more about Ormond and M & C than you do about Mary and Clara (multiple M’s and C’s like a CBB novel!).

I think guilt as taxonomy is also a fruitful avenue for investigation. also like the complications of mobility sketched here.

I think that thinking about the anxieties around mobility is a fruitful concept to explore, and while there has been a great deal of work around the idea of mobility as a reality and or as a possibility, thinking […]

and perhaps also how the idea of captivity is used to underwrite period notions of settler colonial violence and expansion. The “taming” of “unsettled” spaces for the safety of civilization because a way by which […]

I think the turn towards thinking about how the idea of captivity lingers and might be reanimated bu contemporary audiences is great. I still have not seen the witch but heard early Americanists raving about it at […]

And the generic blurring of fantasy and fact, of the real and the not real or the allegorical is centrally central to such paradigmatic captivity tales as Mary Rolandson. I would caution against retrospectively […]

I am really happy to see that the archival project has captivated you in such a way as to want to stick to this under examined text. When we spoke about this I mentioned the Castiglia and Burnham work on captivity […]