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The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette
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The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette Paperback - 1996

by Brown, William Wells, Foster, Hannah Webster

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  • Title The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette
  • Author Brown, William Wells, Foster, Hannah Webster
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York, NY
  • Date 1996-11-01
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4750479-6
  • 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

From the publisher

William Wells Brown (1814–1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time. During his prolific literary career, Brown was a pioneer in several different genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama.

From the rear cover

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.

About the author

William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was born a slave, escaped to the North and then to England, and became one of the most prominent abolitionists of his time. During his prolific literary career, Brown was a pioneer in several different genres, including travel writing, fiction, and drama.

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