Emily Hamilton and other writings
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Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
Sprache: | English |
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Lincoln
University of Nebraska Press
2009
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Schriftenreihe: | Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers
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Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references Emily Hamilton -- Poems published in the Massachusetts Spy -- Unpublished manuscripts Sukey Vickery's Emily Hamilton is an epistolary novel dealing with the courtship and marriages of three women. Originally published in 1803, it is one of the earliest examples of realist fiction in America and a departure from other novels at the turn of the nineteenth century. From the outset its author intended it as a realist project, never delving into the overly sentimental plotting or characterization present in much of the writing of Vickery's contemporaries. Emily Hamilton explores from a decidedly feminine perspective the idea of a woman's right to choose her own spouse and the import |
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Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xlviii, 224 pages) |
ISBN: | 0803226519 9780803226517 |