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PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press

ISBN-100803217854

ISBN-139780803217850

eBay Product ID (ePID)72735288

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Book TitleEmily Hamilton and Other Writings

Number of Pages278 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicWomen Authors, American / General, Literary

Publication Year2009

GenreLiterary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Collections

AuthorSukey Vickery

Book SeriesLegacies of Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight23.5 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2009-005432

Dewey Edition22

Reviews" Emily Hamilton . . . adds to our knowledge of early republican novels while opening lines of inquiry into established ideas about American realism and American women's writing."-Jill Kirsten Anderson, Legacy, "The careful editing and cogent and engaging introduction to this volume will guide students and scholars alike, thus helping Sukey Vickery''s work to receive the attention that it deserves." -Amy E. Winans, Women''s Studies, "The careful editing and cogent and engaging introduction to this volume will guide students and scholars alike, thus helping Sukey Vickery's work to receive the attention that it deserves." -Amy E. Winans, Women's Studies, " Emily Hamilton . . . adds to our knowledge of early republican novels while opening lines of inquiry into established ideas about American realism and American women''s writing."-Jill Kirsten Anderson, Legacy

Dewey Decimal818.309

Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Introduction Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Text List of Characters Emily Hamilton Poems Published in the Massachusetts Spy LINES , Addressed to JOHN ADAMS, ESQ. late PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES BEAUTY ADDRESS to PIETY CHARACTER of a YOUNG LADY To FIDELIA To THEODORUS RESIGNATION To the Memory of Miss H. who departed this life on the 6 th of July, after a short illness To FIDELIA To THEODORUS EVENING REFLECTIONS [untitled.] To EUGENE To FIDELIA To THEODORUS To CONTENT LINES , Occasioned by the Death of Miss E **** SUMMER [untitled.] SONNET to FIDELIA To FREDERIC Unpublished Manuscripts Ode for the New year. Jan. 1st , 1784 [Letter to Adeline Hartwell] Written after reading some very elegant extracts from Campbell's pleasures of hope. Address to Hope A tale for those who deal in the marvelous [untitled] [untitled] To Adelaide- [Letter to Isaiah Thomas, Junior] [Journal] Appendix TRIBUTE to MERIT [Review of Emily Hamilton ] Notes

SynopsisSukey 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. Sukey Vickery was born in Leicester, Massachusetts on June 12, 1779. At age 22, she became a published poet when her poems appeared in the Massachusetts Spy. Two years later she published the epistolary novel Emily Hamilton. After her marriage in 1804, she ceased to publish her work, but continued writing. She died unexpectedly at the age of forty-two. Scott Slawinski (PhD, University of South Carolina, 2002) is an assistant professor of English at Western Michigan University. He is the author of Validating Bachelorhood: Audience, Patriarchy, and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review (Routledge, 2005)., 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., 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.

LC Classification NumberPS3129.V54E65 2009