Susanna Haswell Rowson (Orden de los libros (cronológico))

Susanna Haswell Rowson Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Susanna Rowson fue una autora británica-estadounidense cuya obra influyó significativamente en la literatura estadounidense temprana. Su escritura se caracterizó por una aguda visión de las normas sociales y los dilemas morales de su época. Rowson exploró diversas formas literarias, desde novelas hasta poesía, y sus textos a menudo profundizaron en temas de honor, traición y la búsqueda de identidad dentro de desafiantes estructuras sociales. Su habilidad para capturar la profundidad psicológica de los personajes y la complejidad moral de las situaciones la establece como una figura importante en la historia de la ficción estadounidense.

Charlotte Temple

160 páginas
6 horas de lectura

<i>Charlotte Temple</i> became a "best seller," going through over 200 editions and holding the title of the most popular American novel until <i>Uncle Tom's Cabin</i>. The story follows a beautiful English girl, Charlotte, who, at 15, elopes with British lieutenant Montraville. After arriving in America, Montraville abandons her to marry another woman and leaves for the Revolutionary War. Desperate and pregnant, Charlotte seeks out the corrupt French teacher who encouraged her relationship with Montraville. Rejected, she finds refuge with her servant. Charlotte's father, a nobleman with a tarnished fortune, arrives just in time to bury his daughter and claim her illegitimate child. Although there is no historical evidence to support the story's claims, Susanna Rowson maintained it was true, and it was embraced as a "tale of truth." In the 19th century, a tombstone with Charlotte's name was erected in New York's Trinity Churchyard, where readers left flowers, locks of hair, and love letters for America's most famous fictional character. Cathy N. Davidson's introduction explores the book's immense popularity and Rowson's sensational life, which rivaled her characters' stories.

1986