The Power of Sympathy and The CoquetteWritten 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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... situation, Silence attested, enabled men to chastise women for folly, whereas women themselves did not control the situation that produced their supposed ignorance and extravagance. At the center of this Silence Dogood essay is a ...
... situation, Silence attested, enabled men to chastise women for folly, whereas women themselves did not control the situation that produced their supposed ignorance and extravagance. At the center of this Silence Dogood essay is a ...
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... situation of women in all aspects of the cultural matrix—their dress, their manners, their labor (or lack of it), their mental and physical abilities, and their chastity (for some women, their only “marketable” commodity)—became ...
... situation of women in all aspects of the cultural matrix—their dress, their manners, their labor (or lack of it), their mental and physical abilities, and their chastity (for some women, their only “marketable” commodity)—became ...
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... class saw others —such as workers of the merchant and artisan groups—achieve financial security and even affluence. Harrington's comment on this situation—that there really ought be no distinctions of this sort, because “Inequality ... is.
... class saw others —such as workers of the merchant and artisan groups—achieve financial security and even affluence. Harrington's comment on this situation—that there really ought be no distinctions of this sort, because “Inequality ... is.
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... . And given the American novelist's particular elite class cultural situation, the novel should aim to inculcate national interests and national goals. In other words, when Brown announced that his novel was dedicated “To the Young Ladies.
... . And given the American novelist's particular elite class cultural situation, the novel should aim to inculcate national interests and national goals. In other words, when Brown announced that his novel was dedicated “To the Young Ladies.
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... situation in which this novel would be circulating. It was published, as the dedication says, for the “Young Ladies of United Columbia,” not for eighteenthcentury readers in London or readers today, who might have different tastes. As ...
... situation in which this novel would be circulating. It was published, as the dedication says, for the “Young Ladies of United Columbia,” not for eighteenthcentury readers in London or readers today, who might have different tastes. As ...
Contents
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 | |
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The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Limited preview - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster Limited preview - 1996 |
The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette William Wells Brown,Hannah Webster Foster No preview available - 1996 |
Common terms and phrases
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