Marion Rust

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Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American WomenPaperback, 1 March 2008

Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American Histo
Part of Series
Institute of Early American History & Culture (Paperback)
Print Length
328 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Date Published
1 Mar 2008
ISBN-10
0807858927
ISBN-13
9780807858929

Description

Susanna Rowson--novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity--bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, Charlotte Temple. Yet this best-selling novel has long been perceived as the prime exemplar of female passivity and subjugation in the early Republic. Marion Rust disrupts this view by placing the novel in the context of Rowson's life and other writings. Rust shows how an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women.

Rust proposes that Rowson found a wide female audience in the young Republic because she articulated meaningful female agency without sacrificing accountability to authority, a particularly useful skill in a nation that idealized womanhood while denying women the most basic rights. Rowson, herself an expert at personal reinvention, invited her readers, theatrical audiences, and students to value carefully crafted female self-presentation as an instrument for the attainment of greater influence. Prodigal Daughters demonstrates some of the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in an increasingly hostile public arena.

Product Details

Author:
Marion Rust
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
1 March 2008
Dimensions:
23.16 x 15.93 x 1.98 cm
ISBN-10:
0807858927
ISBN-13:
9780807858929
Language:
English
Location:
Chapel Hill
Pages:
328
Weight:
462.66 gm

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