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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... scene Harrington mentions in a letter to Worthy (Letter XVII) about a social gathering he attended. The party was going along very well, until a highly accomplished young woman, Miss P——, overheard someone whisper about her, in a ...
... scene Harrington mentions in a letter to Worthy (Letter XVII) about a social gathering he attended. The party was going along very well, until a highly accomplished young woman, Miss P——, overheard someone whisper about her, in a ...
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... scenes and incidents remote from ordinary life, featured a class of society (queens, knights, and Catholic ecclesiastics, for instance) that in England, after the peaceable and popular Revolution of 1688, were becoming increasingly held ...
... scenes and incidents remote from ordinary life, featured a class of society (queens, knights, and Catholic ecclesiastics, for instance) that in England, after the peaceable and popular Revolution of 1688, were becoming increasingly held ...
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... scenes in which sensuality was exploited to the nearly pornographic, and sexual consummation between the characters only narrowly thwarted. One of many such scenes from Haywood's early novelwriting career occurs in Love in Excess: she ...
... scenes in which sensuality was exploited to the nearly pornographic, and sexual consummation between the characters only narrowly thwarted. One of many such scenes from Haywood's early novelwriting career occurs in Love in Excess: she ...
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... scenes of misfortune the novel offered. “Execrable is the man,” Julia concludes in Letter LXXI, “however arrayed in magnificence, crowned with wealth, or decorated with the external graces and accomplishments of fashionable life, who ...
... scenes of misfortune the novel offered. “Execrable is the man,” Julia concludes in Letter LXXI, “however arrayed in magnificence, crowned with wealth, or decorated with the external graces and accomplishments of fashionable life, who ...
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... scenes (the Queen of Sheba and Solomon, or Job, for example), of rationalist and/or pietistic poetry (by Alexander Pope, James Thomson, Matthew Prior), and of dramatic references (Joseph Addison's Cato, Thomas Otway's The Orphan ...
... scenes (the Queen of Sheba and Solomon, or Job, for example), of rationalist and/or pietistic poetry (by Alexander Pope, James Thomson, Matthew Prior), and of dramatic references (Joseph Addison's Cato, Thomas Otway's The Orphan ...
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