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The Morgesons

Elizabeth Stoddard

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Elizabeth Stoddard combines the narrative style of the popular nineteenth-century male-centered bildungsroman with the conventions of women's romantic fiction in this revolutionary exploration of the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town (1862), The Morgesons is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. An indomitable heroine, Cassandra not only achieves an equal and complete love with her husband and ownership of her family's property, but also masters the skills and accomplishments expected of women.

Counterpointed with the stultified lives of her aunt, mother, and sister, Cassandra's success is a striking and radical affirmation of women's power to shape their own destinies. Embodying the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, The Morgesons marks an important transition in the development of the novel and evoked comparisons during Stoddard's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, Eliot, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1997
  • Pages: 304
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 7.70in - 5.10in - 0.80in - 0.55lb
  • EAN: 9780140436518
  • Categories: • Classics• Literary

About the Author

Lawrence Buell has written two critical-historical books on nineteenth-century New England writing, Literary Transcendentalism and New England Literary Culture, as well as numerous articles and reviews. He has also edited a collection of the poetry of Walt Whitman and co-edited an anthology of the works of Elizabeth Barstow Stoddard. He is currently Professor and Chairman of the English Department of Oberlin College.

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Starting one of my very favorite under-remembered & -read books in my American Novel to 1950 class today, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862). Makes a phenomenal fiction complement to her contemporary Fanny Fern, in style as well as theme. https://t.co/SaKM1r0T9n

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Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him

Starting one of my very favorite under-remembered & -read books in my American Novel to 1950 class today, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862). Makes a phenomenal fiction complement to her contemporary Fanny Fern, in style as well as theme. https://t.co/SaKM1r0T9n

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What people are saying

Mentioner image for: Ben Railton
Ben Railton
@AmericanStudier
2 years

Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him

Starting one of my very favorite under-remembered & -read books in my American Novel to 1950 class today, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862). Makes a phenomenal fiction complement to her contemporary Fanny Fern, in style as well as theme. https://t.co/SaKM1r0T9n

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Mentioner image for: Ben Railton
Ben Railton
@AmericanStudier
2 years

Prof of Amer Lit & Studies. Dad to 2 amazing young men. We the People: https://t.co/HSQd0cfKJa; Of Thee I Sing: https://t.co/bSkmCeE703. #ScholarSunday guru. he/him

Starting one of my very favorite under-remembered & -read books in my American Novel to 1950 class today, Elizabeth Stoddard's The Morgesons (1862). Makes a phenomenal fiction complement to her contemporary Fanny Fern, in style as well as theme. https://t.co/SaKM1r0T9n

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