Clarence (Paperback)

Catharine Maria Sedgwick

ISBN 10: 1551118610 / ISBN 13: 9781551118611

Published by Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough, 2011

About this Item

Paperback. In Catharine Maria Sedgwicks third novel, heiress Gertrude Clarence negotiates the marriage market in New York City. Innovative in its incorporation of British and Caribbean elements alongside the American storyline, Clarence demonstrates Sedgwicks importance as a nineteenth-century novelist. Unlike her historical novels, Clarence is set in the New York City of Sedgwicks own day, and in this novel she proves herself to be an astute observer and critic of the social world of the young nations most cosmopolitan city. Appendices include selections from Sedgwicks letters and journals, literary representations of the West Indies, and early reviews of the novel. Broadviews is the only edition available of this pioneering American novel of manners. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Clarence (Paperback)
• Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1551118610
• ISBN 13: 9781551118611
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Honorable mention recipient for the 2012 Society for the Study of American Women Writers Award.

A pioneering American novel of manners first published in 1830, Catharine Sedgwick’s Clarence follows heiress Gertrude Clarence as she negotiates the perils of the marriage market in New York City. Giving Gertrude’s family English and Caribbean histories, Sedgwick aligns the United States in the 1820s with a larger Atlantic world. This edition of Sedgwick’s cosmopolitan novel will contribute to a rethinking both of the history of the American novel of manners and to the shape of Sedgwick’s career as one of the most important novelists of the first half of the nineteenth century.

This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from Sedgwick’s correspondence and journals reconstructing the origins of the novel, engravings and lithographs of key sites in the novel, American and British reviews of the novel, and documentation of the author’s revised edition of 1849.

About the Author

Melissa J. Homestead is Susan J. Rosowski Associate Professor of English and Program Faculty in Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Ellen A. Foster is Associate Professor of English at Clarion University of Pennsylvania.