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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... continued from their day to our own. Women's bodies and their behaviors have for centuries been the focus of those who wished to lecture on morality and the general success or failure of the culture. Women seem to have become a ...
... continued from their day to our own. Women's bodies and their behaviors have for centuries been the focus of those who wished to lecture on morality and the general success or failure of the culture. Women seem to have become a ...
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... continued by asserting that “without national Morality a Republican Government cannot be maintained. Therefore my dear Fellow Citizens of America, you must ask leave of your wives and daughters to preserve your Republick.” It was in ...
... continued by asserting that “without national Morality a Republican Government cannot be maintained. Therefore my dear Fellow Citizens of America, you must ask leave of your wives and daughters to preserve your Republick.” It was in ...
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... continued to write and publish poetry and drama throughout his brief life. Indeed, shortly after The Power of Sympathy was published in 1789, he printed (also with Isaiah Thomas) a ballad opera called The Better Sort: Or, The Girl of ...
... continued to write and publish poetry and drama throughout his brief life. Indeed, shortly after The Power of Sympathy was published in 1789, he printed (also with Isaiah Thomas) a ballad opera called The Better Sort: Or, The Girl of ...
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... continued their attacks upon novel reading and novel writing. On the one hand, novels seem to have been constructed by their detractors as antigovernment and antisociety in their enabling of young people's independence of thought and ...
... continued their attacks upon novel reading and novel writing. On the one hand, novels seem to have been constructed by their detractors as antigovernment and antisociety in their enabling of young people's independence of thought and ...
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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 |
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