The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Times

by John Thelwall

Book Overview

John Thelwall's The Daughter of Adoption: A Tale of Modern Timesis a witty and wide-ranging work in which the picaresque and sentimental novel of the eighteenth century confronts the revolutionary ideas and forms of the Romantic period. Thelwall puts his two main characters, the conflicted English gentleman Henry Montfort and the Creole Seraphina Parkinson, through their paces in a slave rebellion in Haiti, where they barely escape with their lives,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554810639
• ISBN13: 9781554810635
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 550 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.