Jennifer Camden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, USA.

'In both its meticulous readings and its thought-provoking emphasis on marginalised forms of femininity in British and American novels, this study upends any easy assumptions about female character’s ’minor’ roles. Camden’s work admirably engages the broad concerns of feminism, nationalism and the history of the novel, making it a useful resource for scholars of any and all of these fields.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secondary Heroine and the Origins of the Novel; Chapter 2 Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance; Chapter 3 Cooper's Man without a Cross: Wealth, Race, and Religion in The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans; Chapter 4 Magawisca's Missing Arm: Absence and Replacement in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Does the Historical Romance Make Us Want What We Can't Have?;

Jennifer Camden is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Indianapolis, USA.

'In both its meticulous readings and its thought-provoking emphasis on marginalised forms of femininity in British and American novels, this study upends any easy assumptions about female character’s ’minor’ roles. Camden’s work admirably engages the broad concerns of feminism, nationalism and the history of the novel, making it a useful resource for scholars of any and all of these fields.' Scottish Literary Review

• Introduction; Chapter 1 The Secondary Heroine and the Origins of the Novel; Chapter 2 Scott and the Origins of Historical Romance; Chapter 3 Cooper's Man without a Cross: Wealth, Race, and Religion in The Pioneers and The Last of the Mohicans; Chapter 4 Magawisca's Missing Arm: Absence and Replacement in Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie; Chapter 5 Conclusion: Why Does the Historical Romance Make Us Want What We Can't Have?;