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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... Magazine of Polite Literature, which later became the North American Review. She would live to see The Coquette reprinted several times before she died in 1840. Carla Mulford is an associate professor of English at the.
... Magazine of Polite Literature, which later became the North American Review. She would live to see The Coquette reprinted several times before she died in 1840. Carla Mulford is an associate professor of English at the.
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... lives and actions were crucially centered in the social fabric, and both used reallife circumstances adapted to the fictional medium. Considered in terms of the genre of novelistic fiction, these two novels were among the first to take ...
... lives and actions were crucially centered in the social fabric, and both used reallife circumstances adapted to the fictional medium. Considered in terms of the genre of novelistic fiction, these two novels were among the first to take ...
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... lives and their bodies became central focal points in the discussion, for women, considered subject to their emotions and “faulty” in bodily functioning, were thought to be more subject to errors of passion. By the end of the eighteenth ...
... lives and their bodies became central focal points in the discussion, for women, considered subject to their emotions and “faulty” in bodily functioning, were thought to be more subject to errors of passion. By the end of the eighteenth ...
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... lives, despite the epistolary form. It is true that many epistolary novels do provide for a greater degree of psychological examination of the central characters. The Power of Sympathy seems, by comparison, to avoid doing this. By ...
... lives, despite the epistolary form. It is true that many epistolary novels do provide for a greater degree of psychological examination of the central characters. The Power of Sympathy seems, by comparison, to avoid doing this. By ...
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... live in Montreal with her daughter Eliza Cushing; she died in Montreal on April 17, 1840. Although she wrote a great deal during her lifetime, she remains best known to literary historians for having published one of the most popular ...
... live in Montreal with her daughter Eliza Cushing; she died in Montreal on April 17, 1840. Although she wrote a great deal during her lifetime, she remains best known to literary historians for having published one of the most popular ...
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 Hill Brown,Hannah Foster Sin vista previa disponible - 2013 |
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