
Reuben and Rachel
by Susanna Rowson
Title:
Reuben and Rachel
Author:
Susanna Rowson
Edited by:
Bartolomeo, Joseph
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
420 pages
Publisher:
Broadview Press Ltd
ISBN-13:
9781551118390
EAN:
9781551118390
Publication Date:
18/02/2009
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
570
Dimensions (mm):
212 x 137 x 24
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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.











