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Elizabeth Stoddard's revolutionary novel explores the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town, The Morgesons is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. "Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice ... that ought to gain a more perceptive hearing in our time than in her own." from the Introduction
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Elizabeth Stoddard's revolutionary novel explores the conflict between a woman's instinct, passion, and will, and the social taboos, family allegiances, and traditional New England restraint that inhibit her. Set in a small seaport town, The Morgesons (1862) is the dramatic story of Cassandra Morgeson's fight against social and religious norms in a quest for sexual, spiritual, and economic autonomy. A female bildungsroman that embodies the convergence of the melodrama and sexual undercurrents of gothic romance and Victorian social realism, The Morgesons marks an important transition in the development of the novel and evoked comparisons during Stoddard's lifetime with such masters as Balzac, Tolstoy, Eliot, the Brontes, and Hawthorne.
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Elizabeth Drew Barstow grew up on Buzzard's Bay in Massachusetts. Aged 29 she married the poet Richard Stoddard, with whom she moved to New York City. She died of double pneumonia in 1902.
Lawrence Buell is John P. Marquand Professor of Englishat Harvard University. He edited the Penguin Classic edition of LONGFELLOW'S SELECTED POEMS.
Sandra A. Zagarell is Professor of English at Oberlin College and the author of numerous articles on American literature.
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- Publication date1998
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