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Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
Sylvester Judd
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Description for Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
Paperback. Centers on the fictional New England village of Livingston, where the young Margaret Hart strives to escape the poverty and vice of her surroundings by learning from a mysterious teacher, the 'Master', and by entwining herself with the powers of nature. This work helps readers to understand the literary culture of mid-nineteenth-century America. Editor(s): Jones, Gavin. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 658.
This is a new edition of a classic work of the American Renaissance. Praised at the time as the most emphatically 'American' book ever written, ""Margaret"" is a breathtaking combination of female bildungsroman, utopian novel, and historical romance. First published in 1845, Sylvester Judd's novel centers on the fictional New England village of Livingston, where the young Margaret Hart strives to escape the poverty and vice of her surroundings by learning from a mysterious teacher, the 'Master', and by entwining herself with the powers of nature. But when Margaret's brother is tried and hanged for murder, this rural community collapses, ... Read more
This is a new edition of a classic work of the American Renaissance. Praised at the time as the most emphatically 'American' book ever written, ""Margaret"" is a breathtaking combination of female bildungsroman, utopian novel, and historical romance. First published in 1845, Sylvester Judd's novel centers on the fictional New England village of Livingston, where the young Margaret Hart strives to escape the poverty and vice of her surroundings by learning from a mysterious teacher, the 'Master', and by entwining herself with the powers of nature. But when Margaret's brother is tried and hanged for murder, this rural community collapses, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558497177
SKU
V9781558497177
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About Sylvester Judd
GAVIN JONES is professor of English at Stanford University.
Reviews for Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom
Margaret is an important novel, interesting on its own terms and also for its relevance to our understanding of nineteenth-century American literature. I could imagine teaching it in courses on the Transcendentalists, on sentimental literature, on nature writing, on the literature of social protest, on the nineteenth-century American novel, and in relation to such authors as Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Stowe, ... Read more