The Minister's Wooing [electronic resource]
Harriet Beecher Stowe1999
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From the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a domestic comedy that examines slavery,
Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America.
First published in 1859, Harriet Beecher Stowe's third novel is set in
eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, a community known for its engagement
in both religious piety and the slave trade. Mary Scudder lives in a modest
farmhouse with her widowed mother an their boarder, Samuel Hopkins, a famous
Calvinist theologian who preaches against slavery. Mary is in love with the
passionate James Marvyn, but Mary is devout and James is a skeptic, and Mary's
mother opposes the union. James goes to sea, and when he is reportedly drowned,
Mary is persuaded to become engaged to Dr. Hopkins.
With colorful characters, including many based on real figures, and a plot that
hinges on romance, The Minister's Wooing combines comedy with regional history
to show the convergence of daily life, slavery, and religion in
post-Revolutionary New Englan...
Main title:
The Minister's Wooing [electronic resource] / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author:
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Penguin Classics, 1999
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file) (384 pages)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781440674129
Language:
English
BRN:
428891
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