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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... took psychology away from the realm of what was vaguely considered dark and irrational into a theory of perception that suggested that emotional responses were sensebased responses to outward phenomena. This theory had a materialist ...
... took psychology away from the realm of what was vaguely considered dark and irrational into a theory of perception that suggested that emotional responses were sensebased responses to outward phenomena. This theory had a materialist ...
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... took with the representation of the amorous relationship between Eliza Wharton and Peter Sanford was amply repaid in the demise and death of Eliza. Foster's interest in didacticism is quite clear from her other writings, as well. In The ...
... took with the representation of the amorous relationship between Eliza Wharton and Peter Sanford was amply repaid in the demise and death of Eliza. Foster's interest in didacticism is quite clear from her other writings, as well. In The ...
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... took great liberties with his friends the Apthorps and the Mortons when he published their sordid tale before all New England society. Perhaps this was taking verisimilitude a step too far. Frances Theodora Apthorp bore a child whose ...
... took great liberties with his friends the Apthorps and the Mortons when he published their sordid tale before all New England society. Perhaps this was taking verisimilitude a step too far. Frances Theodora Apthorp bore a child whose ...
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... took little more than a month before Whitman's hapless story was transformed and redacted into a harshly phrased “moral lecture to young ladies” like the one that appeared in Boston's Independent Chronicle on September 11, 1788 ...
... took little more than a month before Whitman's hapless story was transformed and redacted into a harshly phrased “moral lecture to young ladies” like the one that appeared in Boston's Independent Chronicle on September 11, 1788 ...
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... took a similar position, although Miller's attack was not against the reading of novels but against the writers of them. Miller, a Presbyterian minister and teacher at Princeton, claimed in A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century ...
... took a similar position, although Miller's attack was not against the reading of novels but against the writers of them. Miller, a Presbyterian minister and teacher at Princeton, claimed in A Brief Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century ...
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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