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Lucinda - or, The Mountain Mourner (Paperback, Revised ed.) Loot Price: R661
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Lucinda - or, The Mountain Mourner (Paperback, Revised ed.): Mischelle Booker Anthony

Lucinda - or, The Mountain Mourner (Paperback, Revised ed.)

Mischelle Booker Anthony

Series: Writing American Women

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In 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manvill's ""Lucinda""; or, ""The Mountain Mourner"". Over the next five decades no fewer than ten printings of the novel appeared in three different states. In the book, the eponymous heroine is one of seven children left to the ailing and poverty-stricken widower Adrian Manvill. Although it is a memoir, ""Lucinda"" reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, where the heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly after her illegitimate child is born. Mischelle B. Anthony's critical edition rescues this once-popular cautionary tale from obscurity and positions it among such classic early American narratives as ""Charlotte Temple"" and ""The Coquette"". In addition to providing insight into the Republican and nineteenth-century reading culture, ""Lucinda"", as a historical document, provides a glimpse into one family and one community dealing with radical social and economic issues in early America. In her introduction, Anthony sheds light on the text's multiple functions among its nineteenth-century readership and draws attention to its unique status as a narrative written by a participant in the events.

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Imprint: Syracuse University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Writing American Women
Release date: September 2009
First published: September 2009
Authors: Mischelle Booker Anthony
Dimensions: 207 x 138 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Edition: Revised ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-3208-5
Categories: Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > General
Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction
LSN: 0-8156-3208-8
Barcode: 9780815632085

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