{"product_id":"prodigal-daughters-susanna-rowsons-early-american-women-9780807858929","title":"Prodigal Daughters: Susanna Rowson's Early American Women","description":"Susanna Rowson -- novelist, actress, playwright, poet, school founder, and early national celebrity -- bears little resemblance to the title character in her most famous creation, \u003ci\u003eCharlotte Temple\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 an early form of American sentimentalism mediated the constantly shifting balance between autonomy and submission that is key to understanding both Rowson's work and the lives of early American women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRust proposes that Rowson found a wide female audience in the young Republic because she articulated meaningful female agency without sacrificing accountability to authority, a particularly useful skill in a nation that idealized womanhood while denying women the most basic rights. Rowson, herself an expert at personal reinvention, invited her readers, theatrical audiences, and students to value carefully crafted female self-presentation as an instrument for the attainment of greater influence. \u003ci\u003eProdigal Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates some of the ways in which literature and lived experience overlapped, especially for women trying to find room for themselves in an increasingly hostile public arena.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marion Rust\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Omohundro Institute and Unc Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/24\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 6.27w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807858929\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarion Rust is assistant professor of English at the University of Kentucky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and Unc Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43150673805427,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":63.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_66cd23de-6c2a-4713-bd8b-2eea354c23cf.jpg?v=1750769315","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/prodigal-daughters-susanna-rowsons-early-american-women-9780807858929","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}