In the late eighteenth century England, a young girl of modest falls in love with a handsome soldier about to leave for the New World. Pushed to give him a wicked woman and a wicked libertine, she left the parents who adore him and fled with the trio of villains. Montraville soon, alas, to leave the U.S. for a richer and better regarded, and abandoning it to the most sordid misery. Shortly after giving birth to a baby girl, poor Charlotte will leave this world and its cruelties, having at least had the joy to see his father, arrived just in time to collect the child. The two evil geniuses who, in their own way, been punished, the seducer, full of remorse, will live his last days in the cult of the deceased, he had failed to recognize.
Quite agreed on this canvas, Susanna Rowson (1762-1824) built a novel (published in 1791) with great sensitivity and great psychological insight, the characters, well drawn, are animated by an intense life. And its interventions in the course of the story, his apostrophes to the reader and his moral concern, though characteristic of the period, are not today the least attractions of a book in which the United States in the early days of the independence were recognized immediately, since they made their first "best seller" and most important to the Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852). It was time that the French can finally take note of a milestone for American literature.
Is The Deconstruction Of A Subject?
There was a time, at dawn bourgeois, when the novel was not seeking the truth in transparency, but in morals. This is the case of Charlotte Temple. Published in 1791 by an Englishwoman who grew up 28 years in the United States, Susanna Rowson, ...