Title:
Charlotte Temple : authoritative text, contexts, criticism / edited by Marion L. Rust.
Author:
Rowson, Mrs., 1762-1824.
Rust, Marion.
Publication Information:
New York : W.W. Norton & Co., ©2011.
Call Number:
PS2736 .R3 C5 2011
Abstract:
An instant best-seller when it was published in America 1794, the sentimental novel Charlotte Temple speaks to the popularity of the genre--and the public thirst for fiction--from the early national period and beyond. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first American edition; the author's original spellings have been maintained. The novel is accompanied by a comprehensive introduction, detailed explanatory annotations, and a note on the text.
The unusually rich "Contexts" section seeks to provide readers with an overview of Charlotte Temple's overlapping British and American backgrounds. Materials are thematically organized into four parts--"Women in Early America: Intellect, Education, Sexuality," "Reading in Early America," "The American Sentimental," and "Selections from Rowson's Writings"--Which include works from Rowson's time to our own. Fourteen illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are reproduced to further enrich the reading experience, among them portraits of Susanna Haswell and William Rowson as youths, a London advertisement for the novel, and covers from the 1845 and 1867 editions.
"Criticism" collects thirteen insightful assessments of Charlotte Temple spanning four centuries and addressing its central issues. Contributors include Mathew Carey, Samuel L. Knapp, Larzer Ziff, Jane Tompkins, Gareth Evans, Julia A. Stern, and Marion Rust, among others.
A Chronology of Susanna Rowson's life and works and a Selected Bibliography are also included. --Book Jacket.
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Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780393925388
Series:
A Norton critical edition
Norton critical edition.
Physical Description:
xxx, 518 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Contents:
The Text of Charlotte Temple -- Contexts -- Illustrations -- Women in Early America: Intellect, Education, Sexuality -- [Advice to a Friend upon Choosing a Mistress] / Desultory Thoughts upon the Utility of Encouraging a Degree of Self-Complacency, Especially in Female Bosoms / From On the Equality of the Sexes -- A New Bundling Song / A New Song in Favour of Courting / From Thoughts upon Female Education / Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Rights of Woman / Rights of Woman / An Extract / Sisterhood / Pregnancy and the New Birth in Charlotte Temple and The Coquette
Reading in Early America -- A Changing Tale of Truth: Charlotte Temple's British Roots / From The Power of Sympathy; or, The Triumph of Nature / Character and Effects of Modern Novels / Novel Reading, A Cause of Female Depravity / Novel-Reading / "We Own That Ladies Sometimes Read": Women's Reading in the Early Republic / From Reading Becomes a Necessity of Life / The Life and Times of Charlotte Temple: The Biography of a Book / The American Sentimental -- From Preface to Clarissa / Head and Heart Letter / From The Coquette / From Sensibility: An Introduction / From Why Daughters Die: The Racial Logic of American Sentimentalism
Reclaiming Sentimental Literature / From What Is Sentimentality? / Grave Matters: Susanna Rowson's Sentimental Geographies / Selections From Rowson's Writings -- To Ladies and Gentlemen, Patrons of Entertaining Literature -- Charlotte. Chapter VI (1st British edition) -- Prefaces -- Preface to Mentoria -- Preface to Trials of the Human Heart -- Preface to Reuben and Rachel -- Preface to Sarah -- Preface to Rebecca -- Novel Excerpts -- From Verses to a Libertine -- From The Fille de Chambre -- From Reuben and Rachel -- From Charlotte's Daughter -- Song Lyrics -- I Never Will Be Married -- The Sailor's Landlady -- Poem -- Maria, Not a Fiction -- Drama -- From Slaves in Algiers: or, a struggle for Freedom -- School Performances -- Concluding Address -- The Bee -- A Fable -- Dialogue. For Three Young Ladies -- Criticism.
Review of Charlotte Temple / From Review on the Roman-Drama-Poe-Tic Works of Mrs. S. Rowson, of the New Theatre, Philadelphia / A Word of Comfort to Mrs. Rowson / Letter to S. Rowson, April 23, 1812 / From Memoir / From A Memoir of Mrs. Susanna Rowson / From Gaining Confidence / Charlotte Temple and the End of Epistolarity / Susanna Rowson, Father of the American Novel / Rakes, Conquettes and Republican Patriarchs: Class, Gender and Nation in Early American Sentimental Fiction / From Seductive Education and the Virtues of the Republic / From Working through the Frame: The Dream of Transparency in Charlotte Temple / What's Wrong with Charlotte Temple?
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