Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women

by Marion Rust

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807858927
• ISBN13: 9780807858929
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Omohundro Institute and Unc Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"