Hopeless-ly

16 May 2022: One of the most delightful sentences I've come across while working on this book: “I wish to argue that contradictions are an inevitable element of Sedgwick’s project and that one cannot separate Hope Leslie from Hopeless-ly” (Fetterley 501). All these years that I've known and studied Sedgwick's book and I only today realized that there's a pun sitting right there.

Work Cited

Fetterley, Judith. “‘My Sister! My Sister!’: The Rhetoric of Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie.” American Literature: A Journal of Literary History, Criticism, and Bibliography, vol. 70, no. 3, Sept. 1998, pp. 491–516. EBSCOhost.