Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) - Softcover

Rust, Marion

 
9780807831403: Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia)
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ISBN 10: 0807831409 ISBN 13: 9780807831403
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

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

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807831409
ISBN 13 
9780807831403
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Anzahl der Seiten
311
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