The Morgesons (Penguin Classics) - Softcover

Stoddard, Elizabeth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140436510 ISBN 13: 9780140436518

Verlag: Penguin Classics, 1997

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Book by Stoddard Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Stoddard's revolutionary novel explores the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town, The Morgesons is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. "Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice ... that ought to gain a more perceptive hearing in our time than in her own." from the Introduction

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Elizabeth Stoddard's revolutionary novel explores the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town, The Morgesons (1862) is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. A female bildungsroman that embodies the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, The Morgesons marks an important transition in the development of the novel and evoked comparisons during Stoddard's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, Eliot, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.

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• Verlag: Penguin Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0140436510
• ISBN 13: 9780140436518
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304