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Weltgeschichte as Heilsgeschichte: Typology in Mary Rowlandson’s and Jérôme Lalemant’s Captivity Narratives

January 29, 2015

By Florian Freitag
Abstract:

Using transnational and comparative captivity narrative studies as a theoretical framework, this article seeks to examine the use of typological hermeneutics and particularly Christic figuration in Jérôme Lalemant's narrative of the captivity of missionary Isaac Jogues in The Jesuit Relation(1648) and to compare it to the employment of typology in Mary Rowlandson's famous The Sovereignty and Goodness of GOD (1682). Special attention will be paid to the specific Biblical types chosen by both accounts as well as to the ways in which The Relation and The Sovereigntyreference the Scriptures. In addition, and drawing upon recent developments in both Rowlandson scholarship in general and readings of typology in the Rowlandson account in particular, this article also seeks to investigate the cultural workaccomplished by Lalemant's distinct use of Christic figuration, namely, its role in the formation and articulation of a trans-Atlantic Catholic community.

Canadian Studies Comparative
This article “Weltgeschichte as Heilsgeschichte: Typology in Mary Rowlandson’s and Jérôme Lalemant’s Captivity Narratives” originally appeared in New Work on Early Canadian Literature. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 213 (Summer 2012): 100-115.

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