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Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature

Susanna Rowson: Sentimental Prophet of Early American Literature

Epley, Steven

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Literary Criticism

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ISBN10: 0810133822
ISBN13: 9780810133822
Publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr
Published: Jan 15 2017
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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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