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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... become a particular preoccupation during the eighteenthcentury era of Enlightenment, however. Many considered that the Enlightenment in America, modified as it was by a certain amount of Christian humanism adapted from the Scottish ...
... become a particular preoccupation during the eighteenthcentury era of Enlightenment, however. Many considered that the Enlightenment in America, modified as it was by a certain amount of Christian humanism adapted from the Scottish ...
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... becoming available for more people of the middling and upper levels. A greater amount of leisure brought more frequent opportunity for reading. Better that women read than they engage in “criminal indulgencies,” it would seem—so long as ...
... becoming available for more people of the middling and upper levels. A greater amount of leisure brought more frequent opportunity for reading. Better that women read than they engage in “criminal indulgencies,” it would seem—so long as ...
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... become too learned; the learned woman would be accused of idleness and of attempting to escape from her “real” work. This was the warning John Ogden mounted in The Female Guide; or, Thoughts on the Education of That Sex (1793). Idle ...
... become too learned; the learned woman would be accused of idleness and of attempting to escape from her “real” work. This was the warning John Ogden mounted in The Female Guide; or, Thoughts on the Education of That Sex (1793). Idle ...
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... becoming increasingly held in check by a greater degree of popular sovereignty. By finding ways to praise novels as opposed to romances, in other words, English writers were thus centering themselves in the cultural life of the English ...
... becoming increasingly held in check by a greater degree of popular sovereignty. By finding ways to praise novels as opposed to romances, in other words, English writers were thus centering themselves in the cultural life of the English ...
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... becoming more “civilized.” The failure of such “civilizing” would reside in women's errors in manners and morals, not in men's errors, in other words. An interesting indication of the influence of advice books in the colonies occurs in ...
... becoming more “civilized.” The failure of such “civilizing” would reside in women's errors in manners and morals, not in men's errors, in other words. An interesting indication of the influence of advice books in the colonies occurs in ...
Contenido
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 |
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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