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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... duties. But women dared not 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 ...
... duties. But women dared not 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 ...
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... duties of prudence, decency and elegance in family affairs, and yet leave you leisure to improve your taste to cultivate your mind, and enlarge your understanding by reading, provided you throw away no part of your time.” Rebecca Otis ...
... duties of prudence, decency and elegance in family affairs, and yet leave you leisure to improve your taste to cultivate your mind, and enlarge your understanding by reading, provided you throw away no part of your time.” Rebecca Otis ...
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... duty and place in the world. Perhaps Brown worried about the way his anonymously published novel, the first written by a citizen in British North America and printed in the United States, would be received by readers and moralists ...
... duty and place in the world. Perhaps Brown worried about the way his anonymously published novel, the first written by a citizen in British North America and printed in the United States, would be received by readers and moralists ...
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... duty to parents; ties of friendship and of love; the virtues of justice, of prudence, of economy; the exertions of generosity, of benevolence, of compassion.” For Mackenzie, poor novels separated out the emotional qualities (such as ...
... duty to parents; ties of friendship and of love; the virtues of justice, of prudence, of economy; the exertions of generosity, of benevolence, of compassion.” For Mackenzie, poor novels separated out the emotional qualities (such as ...
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... duty, appear to me totally unfit to form the minds of women, of friends, or of wives.” Superior novels, in other words, appealed to the mind, not to the sensual appetite. Mr. Holmes does not indicate by name the sorts of novels he is ...
... duty, appear to me totally unfit to form the minds of women, of friends, or of wives.” Superior novels, in other words, appealed to the mind, not to the sensual appetite. Mr. Holmes does not indicate by name the sorts of novels he is ...
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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