Emily Hamilton and Other Writings Paperback / softback
by Sukey Vickery
Edited by Scott Slawinski
Part of the Legacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers series
Paperback / softback
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Sukey Vickery’s Emily Hamilton is an epistolary novel dealing with the courtship and marriages of three women. Originally published in 1803, it is one of the earliest examples of realist fiction in America and a departure from other novels at the turn of the nineteenth century.
From the outset its author intended it as a realist project, never delving into the overly sentimental plotting or characterization present in much of the writing of Vickery’s contemporaries.
Emily Hamilton explores from a decidedly feminine perspective the idea of a woman’s right to choose her own spouse and the importance of female friendship.
Vickery’s characterization of women further diverges from the typical eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century didactic of the righteous/sinful woman and depicts, instead, believable female characters exhibiting true-to-life behavior.
A presentation of this novel accompanied by Vickery’s poetry, letters, a diary fragment, and a few nineteenth-century responses to her work, Emily Hamilton and Other Writings is the first complete collection of Vickery’s writings.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:278 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2009
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- ISBN:9780803217850
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:278 pages
- Publisher:University of Nebraska Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2009
- Category:
- ISBN:9780803217850