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An instant bestseller when it was published in America, the sentimental novel Charlotte Temple speaks to the popularity of the genre--and the public thirst for fiction--from the early national period and beyond. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first American edition of 1794; the author's original spellings have been maintained. It is accompanied by a detailed introduction, explanatory annotations, and A Note on the Text. An unusually rich "Contexts" section is thematically organized into four parts--"Women in Early America: Intellect, Education, Sexuality," "Reading in Early America," "The American Sentimental," and "Selections from Rowson's Writings"--and includes works from Rowson's time to our own. Ten illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are reproduced to further enrich the reading experience. "Criticism" collects thirteen insightful assessments of Charlotte Temple spanning four centuries and addressing its central issues. Contributors include Matthew Carey, Samuel L. Knapp, Larzer Ziff, Jane P. Tompkins, Gareth Evans, Julia A. Stern, and Marion Rust, among others. A Chronology of Susanna Rowson's life and works and a Selected Bibliography are also included.… (meer)
Realized I had somehow missed reading this along the way and thought it was time to remedy that. Perfectly fine, but not terribly exciting as a novel as far as they go. This one is accompanied by hundreds of pages of contextual material, only some of which is particularly relevant. ( )
This review applies only to the novel Charlotte Temple, not to the accompanying material found in this Norton Critical Edition:
Young innocent Charlotte Temple is seduced and abandoned by manipulative cad Montraville and further deceived by his evil friend Belcour. This short work, an example of an early American “sentimental novel” is filled with crying, fainting and other emotional displays brought about by insupportable feelings. I was surprised by how well it kept me reading, despite the predictability of the plot and the one-dimensional nature of the characters. A worthwhile slice of literary history. ( )
What would have happened if Mr Darcy had not interested himself in the fate of silly Lydia Bennet? Well, Charlotte Temple is a ‘what might have been’ when a young girl of fifteen is swept off her feet by the dashing Montraville and runs away from her school with the connivance of her French governess – a woman with her own agenda entirely. The ensuing story is Charlotte’s life after the great romantic escape and does not feature a Mr Darcy figure ready with his ‘generous compassion … [to] bear so many mortifications’ to make everything well and happy. A short and fascinating novella encapsulating a common fate the frivolous and wilful Lydia Bennet deserved far more than Charlotte Temple.
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An instant bestseller when it was published in America, the sentimental novel Charlotte Temple speaks to the popularity of the genre--and the public thirst for fiction--from the early national period and beyond. This Norton Critical Edition is based on the first American edition of 1794; the author's original spellings have been maintained. It is accompanied by a detailed introduction, explanatory annotations, and A Note on the Text. An unusually rich "Contexts" section is thematically organized into four parts--"Women in Early America: Intellect, Education, Sexuality," "Reading in Early America," "The American Sentimental," and "Selections from Rowson's Writings"--and includes works from Rowson's time to our own. Ten illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries are reproduced to further enrich the reading experience. "Criticism" collects thirteen insightful assessments of Charlotte Temple spanning four centuries and addressing its central issues. Contributors include Matthew Carey, Samuel L. Knapp, Larzer Ziff, Jane P. Tompkins, Gareth Evans, Julia A. Stern, and Marion Rust, among others. A Chronology of Susanna Rowson's life and works and a Selected Bibliography are also included.
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