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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792376703321

Autore

Vickery Sukey <1779-1821.>

Titolo

Emily Hamilton and other writings [[electronic resource] /] / Sukey Vickery ; edited and with an introduction by Scott Slawinski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-42377-0

9786612423772

0-8032-2651-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (278 p.)

Collana

Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers

Altri autori (Persone)

SlawinskiScott

Disciplina

818/.309

Soggetti

Women authors, American - 19th century

Realism in literature

American literature - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Emily Hamilton; Poems Published in the Massachusetts Spy; Unpublished Manuscripts; Appendix 1: Tribute to Merit; Appendix 2: [Review of Emily Hamilton]; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading

Sommario/riassunto

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