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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... taste to cultivate your mind, and enlarge your understanding by reading, provided you throw away no part of your time.” Rebecca Otis could read, but only to “enlarge [her] understanding,” not for mere entertainment. Such advice was ...
... taste to cultivate your mind, and enlarge your understanding by reading, provided you throw away no part of your time.” Rebecca Otis could read, but only to “enlarge [her] understanding,” not for mere entertainment. Such advice was ...
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... tastes, and relative familiarity with these works. As a careful reading of Foster's and Brown's novels attests, these early American novels (and many like them) entered into an engaging dialogue with the literature then considered “high ...
... tastes, and relative familiarity with these works. As a careful reading of Foster's and Brown's novels attests, these early American novels (and many like them) entered into an engaging dialogue with the literature then considered “high ...
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... tastes. If in Brown's view (at least according to the preface of the novel) a novel should edify readers, then the function of the novel should be to replicate, with some difference, those texts typically read for edification—such as ...
... tastes. If in Brown's view (at least according to the preface of the novel) a novel should edify readers, then the function of the novel should be to replicate, with some difference, those texts typically read for edification—such as ...
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... tastes. As we earlier saw in the letter Mercy Otis Warren wrote to her niece, letters during this era in the new United States—particularly letters between women— were often written with an explicit edifying function, telling recipients ...
... tastes. As we earlier saw in the letter Mercy Otis Warren wrote to her niece, letters during this era in the new United States—particularly letters between women— were often written with an explicit edifying function, telling recipients ...
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... taste, without balancing the account by any solid advantage?” Linked in Hitchcock's complaint are corrupt principles and an inflamed imagination, and both are set off against their supposed opposite, “solid advantage.” Phrased in its ...
... taste, without balancing the account by any solid advantage?” Linked in Hitchcock's complaint are corrupt principles and an inflamed imagination, and both are set off against their supposed opposite, “solid advantage.” Phrased in its ...
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