Paperback. Susanna Haswell Rowson, a popular and prolific writer, actress, and educator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had a truly transatlantic life and career, moving twice from England to America and publishing extensively in both countries. A transatlantic sensibility informs her fictionalized history of America, Reuben and Rachel, which traces ten generations of an extended family, beginning with the marriage of Christopher Columbuss son to a native Peruvian princess, moving through the Tudor succession crises and the colonial settlement of New England, and ending with the title characters, who leave England for America, renounce titles of nobility, and consider their children true-born Americans. In Rowsons representation, the American character derives from fusion and hybridity, the results of intermarriage across racial, religious and national lives. Previously out of print, Reuben and Rachel traces American history in the many generations of one family, emphasizing the stories of women and Native Americans. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Reuben and Rachel (Paperback)
Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd, Peterborough
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1551118394
ISBN 13: 9781551118390
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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Susanna Haswell Rowson, a popular and prolific writer, actress, and educator in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, had a truly transatlantic life and career, moving twice from England to America and publishing extensively in both countries. A transatlantic sensibility informs her fictionalized “history” of America, Reuben and Rachel, which traces ten generations of an extended family, beginning with the marriage of Christopher Columbus’s son to a native Peruvian princess, moving through the Tudor succession crises and the colonial settlement of New England, and ending with the title characters, who leave England for America, renounce titles of nobility, and consider their children “true-born Americans.” In Rowson’s representation, the American character derives from fusion and hybridity, the results of intermarriage across racial, religious and national lives.

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Joseph F. Bartolomeo is Professor of English and Chair of the English Department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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