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William Hill Brown

Power of Sympathy and Other Writings Paperback Book

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Classic literary fiction
Insights into early America
Influential early American novel
Broadview Press critical edition
Unisex casual reading experience
Description

Eighteenthcentury readers were just as interested in gossipespecially about the rich and powerfulas contemporary readers. This volume contains the full text of William Hill Browns 1789 novel The Power of Sympathy and the related plays Sans Souci, alias, Free and Easy and Occurrences of the Times, all of which draw on contemporary scandal and intrigue among the elite of Boston in constructing their plots. The literary works collected here used a combination of sentiment and satire to address the public and private moral corruption and structural inequalities that made young American women especially vulnerableand burdened them as symbols of national virtue. Situating the works within their milieu, the editors highlight the experiences of actual readers to explain why these scandals were so compelling on personal and political levels.Historical documents provide further context for the events, including debates about womens education and political agency the postRevolutionary cultural work of novels, plays, and poetry and controversies surrounding literary and journalistic representations of seduction, suicide, and other instances of unregulated passion.

SKU: M9781554812950
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Binding: Paperback;258 pages; Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd; Classification: FC; Weight: 410 g; Dimensions: 215 x 140 x 15

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