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Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press) - Brossura

Rust, Marion

 
9780807858929: Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press)
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ISBN 10: 0807858927 ISBN 13: 9780807858929
Casa editrice: Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Sinossi

Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet this best-selling novel has long been perceived as the prime exemplar of female passivity and subjugation in the early Republic. Marion Rust disrupts this view by placing the novel in the context of Rowson's life and other writings. Rust shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women.

Rust proposes that Rowson found a wide female audience in the young Republic because she articulated meaningful female agency without sacrificing accountability to authority, a particularly useful skill in a nation that idealized womanhood while denying women the most basic rights. Rowson, herself an expert at personal reinvention, invited her readers, theatrical audiences, and students to value carefully crafted female self-presentation as an instrument for the attainment of greater influence. Prodigal Daughters demonstrates some of the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in an increasingly hostile public arena.

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L'autore

Marion Rust is assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

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Editore
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Data di pubblicazione
2008
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0807858927
ISBN 13 
9780807858929
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
328
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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