Author: Catharine Maria SedgwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners
Author: Catharine Maria SedgwickPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners
Author: Catharine Maria SedgwickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198025351
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted it its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of Catharine Sedgwick's twenty novels in addition to the one hundred short magazine pieces she published in her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral and religious trials she faces as she grows up, this intriguing portrait provides a unique look at the religious and political climate of this crucial period in America's development as a country. Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as theoretical issues of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic nineteenth-century story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs.
A New-England Tale
Author: Catharine Maria SedgwickPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780142437124
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jane Elton, orphaned as a young girl, goes to live with her aunt Mrs. Wilson, a selfish and overbearing woman who practices a repressive Calvinism. In their rural New England village, Jane grows up yearning to break free from Mrs. Wilson's tyranny and find her place as a citizen of the evolving American Republic. She is helped by her encounters with characters who embody various shadings of moral, religious, and civic virtue: the affectionate servant Mary Hull, a pious Methodist; Mr. Lloyd, a kind Quaker; Crazy Bet, emotional, sympathetic, but deeply unstable; and Old John, bereaved but wise. Ultimately, A New-England Tale is about the connection between parenting and governing, and the key role women play in shaping a fledgling nation. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Author: Lucinda L. Damon-BachPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781555535483
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The essays in this volume examine the full breadth and complexity of the extensive oeuvre of American literary pioneer Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1789-1867).
A New-England Tale; Or, Sketches of New-England Character and Manners
Author: Catharine Maria SedgwickPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190282487
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
The Early American Women Writers series offers rare works of fiction by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women, each reprinted it its entirety, each with a foreword by General Editor Cathy N. Davidson, who places the novel in a historical and literary perspective. Ranging from serious cautionary tales about moral corruption to amusing and trenchant social satire, these books provide today's reader with a unique window into the earliest American popular fiction and way of life. Written in 1822, A New-England Tale is the first of Catharine Sedgwick's twenty novels in addition to the one hundred short magazine pieces she published in her lifetime. The story of an orphan girl in rural New England and the moral and religious trials she faces as she grows up, this intriguing portrait provides a unique look at the religious and political climate of this crucial period in America's development as a country. Addressing many of the complex religious, political, and philosophical issues of the time, as well as theoretical issues of the woman writer, A New-England Tale is a classic nineteenth-century story of a young woman's moral and material triumphs.
The Cambridge History of American Literature
Author: The Sedgwicks in Love
Author: Timothy KensleaPublisher: UPNE
ISBN: 9781584654940
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
The courtships, engagements, and marriages of the sons and daughters of Theodore and Pamela are the subject of this book."
A Nation of Speechifiers
Author: Carolyn EastmanPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226180212
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity. Telling the story of this messy yet formative process, Carolyn Eastman argues that ordinary men and women gave meaning to American nationhood and national belonging by first learning to imagine themselves as members of a shared public. She reveals that the creation of this American public—which only gradually developed nationalistic qualities—took place as men and women engaged with oratory and print media not only as readers and listeners but also as writers and speakers. Eastman paints vibrant portraits of the arenas where this engagement played out, from the schools that instructed children in elocution to the debating societies, newspapers, and presses through which different groups jostled to define themselves—sometimes against each other. Demonstrating the previously unrecognized extent to which nonelites participated in the formation of our ideas about politics, manners, and gender and race relations, A Nation of Speechifiers provides an unparalleled genealogy of early American identity.
Woman's Fiction
Author: Nina BaymPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252062858
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
This reissue of the pioneering and standard book on antebellum women's domestic novels contains a new introduction situating the book in the context of important recent developments in the study of women's writing. Nina Baym considers 130 novels by 48 women, focusing on the works of a dozen especially productive and successful writers. Woman's Fiction is a major-work in nineteenth-century literature, reexamining changes in the literary canon and the meaning of sentimentalism, while responding to current critical discussions of 'the body' in literary texts. ''Informative and stimulating. . . . Nina Baym has undertaken a systematic analysis of that nineteenth-century American fiction normally dismissed as at best trivially sentimental. . . . Woman's Fiction offers a fresh perspective on a largely forgotten body of literature.'' -- American Literature''Perceives in the fiction of, by, and for women in the period stated a popular genre that made a particular kind of feminist avowal for the times, one that rejected the concept of helplessness and urged the application of intelligence and courage to trying situations. . . . Baym marshals ample supporting evidence from the outpouring of such fiction.'' - ALA Booklist
Catalogue of Books Belonging to the Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York: to which are Prefixed, the Constitution, and the Rules and Regulations of the Same
Author: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New-YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description