The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette Paperback - 1996
by William Wells Brown; Hannah Webster Foster
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Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the country's morality. A novel about the dangers of succumbing to sexual temptations and the rewards of resistance, it was meant to promote women's moral rectitude, and the letters through which the story is told are filled with advice on the proper relationships between the sexes. Like The Power of Sympathy, Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is concerned with womanly virtue. Eliza Wharton is eager to enjoy a bit of freedom before settling down to domestic life and begins a flirtation with the handsome, rakish Sanford. Their letters trace their relationship from its romantic beginnings to the transgression that inevitably brings their exclusion from proper society. In her Introduction, Carla Mulford discusses the novels' importance in the development of American literature and as vivid reflections of the goal to establish a secure republic built on the virtue of its citizens.
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- Title The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette
- Author William Wells Brown; Hannah Webster Foster
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group, New York, NY
- Date 1996-11-01
- ISBN 9780140434682 / 0140434682
- Weight 0.54 lbs (0.24 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.04 x 0.65 in (19.86 x 12.80 x 1.65 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects Biographical fiction, Women
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96005347
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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