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Marion Rust

Cloth ISBN 978-0-8078-3140-3 $59.95
Paper ISBN 978-0-8078-5892-9 $24.95

Copyright 2008 by The University of North Carolina Press

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“A major accomplishment. . . . Rust charts the tension between discipline and pleasure, submission and autonomy, republican virtue and its gendered performances, that marked both Rowson and her characters, making them central to the culture of sentiment in the United States. By moving Rowson center stage, Prodigal Daughters rectifies a long-standing omission in American cultural history.”

“More than a revisionist account of the best-selling novelist in the United States prior to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Rust’s powerful rendering of Susanna Rowson’s life and career is an invitation to rethink our fundamental assumptions about the relations among gender, agency, literary production, and public action.”

“In this important contribution to gender and literary studies in the early U.S. Republic, Marion Rust opens a window onto the extended literary career of Susanna Rowson, demonstrating that there is far more to Rowson’s work than Charlotte Temple and far more to the story of femininity in the early national period than a choice between seduction and death or republican motherhood.”