The Power Of Sympathy

Author : William Hill Brown
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
ISBN 13 : 1513273671
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Sympathy written by William Hill Brown and published by Graphic Arts Books. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Power of Sympathy (1789) is a novel by American author William Hill Brown. Considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy is a work of sentimental fiction which explores the lessons of the Enlightenment on the virtues of rational thought. A story of forbidden romance, seduction, and incest, Brown’s novel is based on the real-life scandal of Perez Morton and Fanny Apthorp, a New England brother- and sister-in-law who struck up an affair that ended in suicide and infamy. Inspired by their tragedy, and hoping to write a novel which captured the need for rational education in the newly formed United States of America, Brown wrote and published The Power of Sympathy anonymously in Boston. The novel, narrated in a series of letters, is the story of Thomas Harrington. He falls for the local beauty Harriot Fawcet, initially hoping to make her his mistress. But when she rejects him, his friend Jack Worthy suggests that he attempt to court and then propose to her, which is the honorable and lawful choice. Thomas’ overly sentimental mind is persuaded by Jack’s unflinching reason, and so he decides to pursue Harriot once more. This time, he is successful, and the two eventually become engaged, but their happiness soon fades when Mrs. Eliza Holmes, a family friend of the Harringtons, reveals the true nature of Harriot’s identity. As the secrets of Mr. Harrington—Thomas’ father—are revealed, the couple are forced to choose between the morals and laws of society and the passionate love they share. The Power of Sympathy is a moving work of tragedy and romance with a pointed message about the need for education in the recently founded United States. Despite borrowing from the British and European traditions of sentimental fiction and the epistolary novel, Brown’s work is a distinctly American masterpiece worthy of our continued respect and attention. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : William Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780808403463
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Power of Sympathy and the Coquette written by William Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1970 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, The Power of Sympathy (1789) and The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in America. William Hill Brown's The Power of Sympathy reflects eighteenth-century America's preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the country's morality. A novel about the dangers of succumbing to sexual temptations and the rewards of resistance, it was meant to promote women's moral rectitude, and the letters through which the story is told are filled with advice on the proper relationships between the sexes. Like The Power of Sympathy, Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette is concerned with womanly virtue. Eliza Wharton is eager to enjoy a bit of freedom before settling down to domestic life and begins a flirtation with the handsome, rakish Sanford. Their letters trace their relationship from its romantic beginnings to the transgression that inevitably brings their exclusion from proper society. In her Introduction, Carla Mulford discusses the novels' importance in the development of American literature and as vivid reflections of the goal to establish a secure republic built on the virtue of its citizens.

Author : A. Rai
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299176
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rule of Sympathy written by A. Rai and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-06-14 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without such differences, which were differences of power, sympathy itself would be impossible. This paradoxical mode of power transformed the ways in which people came to think of how best to manage, order, and govern individuals and populations in the late eighteenth century.

Author : William Hill Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Sympathy: Or, The Triumph of Nature written by William Hill Brown and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140434682
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette written by William Wells Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.

Author : Kent Anderson
Publisher : Mulholland Books
ISBN 13 : 0316489492
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sympathy for the Devil written by Kent Anderson and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson's two tours of duty and a bitter, ill-fated return to civilian life in-between, capturing the day-to-day process of war like no writer before or since.

Author : Hannah Webster Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coquette written by Hannah Webster Foster and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Wells Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140434682
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Sympathy and the Coquette written by William Wells Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in epistolary form and drawn from actual events, Brown’s The Power of Sympathy (1789) and Foster’s The Coquette (1797) were two of the earliest novels published in the United States. Both novels reflect the eighteenth-century preoccupation with the role of women as safekeepers of the young country’s morality.

Author : Anthony Costello
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912664009
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Edge written by Anthony Costello and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-05 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fascinating and amusing book, doctor and scientist Anthony Costello describes how tapping the power of small groups guided human history, hidden in plain sight, from hunter-gatherer societies to the present day. He shows how groups improved survival in Asia and Africa, and can reform the culture of business, health, and climate change.

Author : Max Scheler
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351478869
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nature of Sympathy written by Max Scheler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued that the sympathetic emotions derive from self-interested feelings or instincts. He reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy current in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments, and concludes by outlining a theory of fellow-feeling as the primary source of our knowledge of one another.A prolific writer and a stimulating thinker, Max Scheler ranks second only to Husserl as a leading member of the German phenomenological school. Scheler's work lies mostly in the fields of ethics, politics, sociology, and religion. He looked to the emotions, believing them capable, in their own quality, of revealing the nature of the objects, and more especially the values, to which they are in principle directed.