The Power of Sympathy and The CoquettePenguin, 1996 M11 1 - 352 páginas Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality. |
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... advice about women's reading, needlework, writing, dance, and singing. In the early part of the nineteenth century, Foster contributed to the Federalist publication The Monthly Anthology or Magazine of Polite Literature, which later ...
... advice about women's reading, needlework, writing, dance, and singing. In the early part of the nineteenth century, Foster contributed to the Federalist publication The Monthly Anthology or Magazine of Polite Literature, which later ...
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... Advice of a Lady of Quality to Her Children. I'd like to thank him for the reference, and I'd like to thank Angela Vietto, who kindly created for me an initial transcription of that text. While he was an undergraduate at Penn State ...
... Advice of a Lady of Quality to Her Children. I'd like to thank him for the reference, and I'd like to thank Angela Vietto, who kindly created for me an initial transcription of that text. While he was an undergraduate at Penn State ...
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... advice was common in the era. It was purveyed at social gatherings, in the poetry and drama of the era, in family letters, and in books. Among the elite, there was a decided emphasis on didactic materials from which, it was thought, all ...
... advice was common in the era. It was purveyed at social gatherings, in the poetry and drama of the era, in family letters, and in books. Among the elite, there was a decided emphasis on didactic materials from which, it was thought, all ...
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... advice or conduct books, serious drama, and poetry—are just as important for consideration as the developing genre of the novel. As William Hill Brown's preface to his novel suggests, some thought all novel reading a mark of the devil ...
... advice or conduct books, serious drama, and poetry—are just as important for consideration as the developing genre of the novel. As William Hill Brown's preface to his novel suggests, some thought all novel reading a mark of the devil ...
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... advice on similar things: dress and manners when in single and mixedsex company; the raising and educating of children; the duty owed to parents; the duty of parents to children; and lists of edifying readings. In most of these books ...
... advice on similar things: dress and manners when in single and mixedsex company; the raising and educating of children; the duty owed to parents; the duty of parents to children; and lists of edifying readings. In most of these books ...
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PREFACE | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
WORTHY to HARRINGTON | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
Miss HARRIOT FAWCET to Miss MYRA HARRINGTON | |
Miss MYRA HARRINGTON to Mrs HOLMES | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
HARRINGTON to HARRIOT | |
HARRINGTON to HARRIOT | |
HARRIOT to MYRA | |
Mrs HOLMES to Miss HARRINGTON | |
WORTHY to HARRINGTON | |
HARRINGTON to WORTHY | |
WORTHY to MYRA | |
Mrs HOLMES to MYRA | |
Mrs HOLMES to MYRA | |
WORTHY to MYRA | |
HARRIOT to MYRA | |
HARRIOT to MYRA | |
HARRIOT to MYRA | |
MYRA to HARRIOT | |
MYRA to Mrs HOLMES | |
WORTHY to MYRA | |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Vista previa limitada - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Sin vista previa disponible - 1996 |
Términos y frases comunes
acquaintance ADIEU advice affection agreeable American answer appeared attention become believe BOSTON Boyer Brown called cause century character circumstances conduct connection considered continued conversation Coquette daughter dear death desire duty early ELIZA WHARTON engaged esteem expect expressed feel fiction friendship future give hand happiness HARRINGTON heart HOLMES honor hope human idea imagination interest Julia kind lady leave LETTER lines live look LUCY Major Sanford mamma manners married means mind Miss moral nature never novel observed once particular passion perhaps person pleased pleasure polite present published readers reading reason received reflection respect retired Richman scenes seems sensibility sentiments sincere situation social society soon soul taste tears tell thing thought told took virtue walked wish woman women WORTHY write written young