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



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Autore: Vickery Sukey <1779-1821.> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Emily Hamilton and other writings [[electronic resource] /] / Sukey Vickery ; edited and with an introduction by Scott Slawinski Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lincoln, : University of Nebraska Press, 2009
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
Disciplina: 818/.309
Soggetto topico: Women authors, American - 19th century
Realism in literature
American literature - 19th century
Altri autori: SlawinskiScott  
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Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Emily Hamilton; Poems Published in the Massachusetts Spy; Unpublished Manuscripts; Appendix 1: Tribute to Merit; Appendix 2: [Review of Emily Hamilton]; Notes; Suggestions for Further Reading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
Titolo autorizzato: Emily Hamilton and other writings  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-42377-0
9786612423772
0-8032-2651-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792376703321
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Serie: Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers.