Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature

Author:   Steven Epley
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
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9780810133822


Pages:   244
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Format:   Hardback
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Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature


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Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature opens the early American writer’s works to new, provocative interpretations based on the theory that her responses to social issues incorporate notions of righteousness, justice, accountability, and loyalty drawn from prophets in the Hebrew Bible. Steven Epley argues that Rowson’s sentimentalism—a literary mode that portrays characters undergoing strong emotions and evokes similar responses from readers—reflects the rhetorical style of the Bible’s first prophet, Moses, and its understanding of the “heart” not just as a metaphor for human kindness and tenderness but also as a source of wickedness. Epley relocates the widespread introduction of Jewish values into American discourse from the height of Jewish immigration (roughly 1890 to 1940) to the early republic, given Rowson’s vast audience and influence on American letters. Her novel Charlotte Temple outsold every other American work of fiction until Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the 1850s.

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Author:   Steven Epley
Publisher:   Northwestern University Press
Imprint:   Northwestern University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.460kg
ISBN:  

9780810133822


ISBN 10:   0810133822
Pages:   244
Publication Date:   30 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Steven Epley is an associate professor of English at Samford University in Alabama, USA.

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