The Power of Sympathy and The Coquette
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Book Overview
Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown's The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster's The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country's morality.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0140434682
ISBN13:9780140434682
Release Date:November 1996
Publisher:Penguin Publishing Group
Length:352 Pages
Weight:0.62 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
Great novel
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 14 years ago
Thank you for the quick shipment! The novel is in great condition and will be a nice edition to my library.
O Times, O Customs
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
An excellent book. I was really only interested in The Power of Sympathy because of its billing as the first American novel. I had never heard of "The Coquette," a separate novel included in the Penguin Classic version. It turned out that The Coquette was the far more interesting of the two...much better writing and much better insight into the thinking of the times on the subjects of the role of women in the new United States and of the existence and the consequences of seduction. The actions of women have changed immeasurably since that time but the thinking remains remarkably the same.
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