Secret History Or The Horrors Of St Domingo And Laura

Author : Leonora Sansay
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781551113463

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Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura by Leonora Sansay Pdf

Based on Leonora Sansay’s eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay’s writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay’s second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife’s reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels.

Author : Leonora Sansay
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1406897620

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Secret History; Or The Horrors of St. Domingo by Leonora Sansay Pdf

Leonora Sansay (1773-1821) was an American novelist best known for her autobiogaphical work Secret History, first published in 1808. This was followed by Laura (1809) and possibly three further novels - Zelica: The Creole (London, 1820), The Scarlet Handkerchief (London, 1823), and The Stranger in Mexico (not extant). She was born Honora Davern in Philadelphia and her father died at sea a few weeks after her birth. In 1779 her mother remarried and went on to have two more children. Leonora's stepfather ran a tavern opposite the State House in Philadelphia which was frequented by local politicians and members of Congress. At some point in the mid- to late 1790s she became acquainted with Aaron Burr, a politician and lawyer who went on to serve as Vice President from 1801-05 during Thomas Jefferson's first term, and he became her confidant and patron. In the Secret History Leonora claims that Burr convinced her to marry Louis Sansay, then a New York merchant having fled his plantation in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) due to a massive slave uprising. In early 1802 Sansay made plans to return in order to reclaim his property and sent Leonora to Washington to obtain letters of recommendation and a passport from Burr. She remained with Burr for some months but in May or June set sail with her husband for Haiti, continuing to correspond with Burr, and it is these letters that form the basis of Secret History, describing the final days of French rule on the island. After leaving Haiti the Sansays lived in Cuba but Louis's insufferable jealousy and increasing violence led Leonara to flee, making her way to Jamaica en route back to Philadelphia where she continued to play a part in Burr's life. It is not known when she travelled to England, or for what reason, but this is where she died and is buried.

Author : Leonora Sansay
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460401675

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Secret History; or, The Horrors of St. Domingo and Laura by Leonora Sansay Pdf

Based on Leonora Sansay’s eyewitness accounts of the final days of French rule in Saint Domingue (Haiti), Secret History is a vivid account of race warfare and domestic violence. Sansay’s writing provocatively draws comparisons between Saint Domingue during the Haitian Revolution and the postrevolutionary United States, while fluidly combining qualities of the eighteenth-century epistolary novel, colonial travel writing, and political analysis. Laura, Sansay’s second novel, features as its protagonist a beautiful impoverished orphan who throws herself headlong into a secret marriage with a young medical student. When her husband dies in a duel in an effort to protect his wife’s reputation, Laura finds herself once more alone in the world. The republication of these works will contribute to a significant revision of thinking about early American literary history. This Broadview edition offers a rich selection of contextual materials, including selections from periodical literature about Haiti, engravings, letters written by Sansay to her friend Aaron Burr, historical material related to the Burr trial for treason, and excerpts from literature referenced in the novels.

Author : Mary Hassal,Aaron Burr,Leonora Sansay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1933*
Category : Haiti
ISBN : OCLC:44464980

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Secret History, Or, The Horrors of St. Domingo by Mary Hassal,Aaron Burr,Leonora Sansay Pdf

Author : Mary Hassal,Aaron Burr,Leonora Sansay
Publisher : Greenwood Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Haiti
ISBN : 0837160820

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Secret History, Or, The Horrors of St. Domingo by Mary Hassal,Aaron Burr,Leonora Sansay Pdf

Author : Adam Rothman
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674266872

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Slave Country by Adam Rothman Pdf

Slave Country tells the tragic story of the expansion of slavery in the new United States. In the wake of the American Revolution, slavery gradually disappeared from the northern states and the importation of captive Africans was prohibited. Yet, at the same time, the country's slave population grew, new plantation crops appeared, and several new slave states joined the Union. Adam Rothman explores how slavery flourished in a new nation dedicated to the principle of equality among free men, and reveals the enormous consequences of U.S. expansion into the region that became the Deep South. Rothman maps the combination of transatlantic capitalism and American nationalism that provoked a massive forced migration of slaves into Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. He tells the fascinating story of collaboration and conflict among the diverse European, African, and indigenous peoples who inhabited the Deep South during the Jeffersonian era, and who turned the region into the most dynamic slave system of the Atlantic world. Paying close attention to dramatic episodes of resistance, rebellion, and war, Rothman exposes the terrible violence that haunted the Jeffersonian vision of republican expansion across the American continent. Slave Country combines political, economic, military, and social history in an elegant narrative that illuminates the perilous relation between freedom and slavery in the early United States. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in an honest look at America's troubled past.

Author : Celia Thaxter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Among the Isles of Shoals. by Celia Thaxter Pdf

Author : Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1864 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119653356

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A Companion to American Literature by Susan Belasco,Theresa Strouth Gaul,Linck Johnson,Michael Soto Pdf

A comprehensive, chronological overview of American literature in three scholarly and authoritative volumes A Companion to American Literature traces the history and development of American literature from its early origins in Native American oral tradition to 21st century digital literature. This comprehensive three-volume set brings together contributions from a diverse international team of accomplished young scholars and established figures in the field. Contributors explore a broad range of topics in historical, cultural, political, geographic, and technological contexts, engaging the work of both well-known and non-canonical writers of every period. Volume One is an inclusive and geographically expansive examination of early American literature, applying a range of cultural and historical approaches and theoretical models to a dramatically expanded canon of texts. Volume Two covers American literature between 1820 and 1914, focusing on the development of print culture and the literary marketplace, the emergence of various literary movements, and the impact of social and historical events on writers and writings of the period. Spanning the 20th and early 21st centuries, Volume Three studies traditional areas of American literature as well as the literature from previously marginalized groups and contemporary writers often overlooked by scholars. This inclusive and comprehensive study of American literature: Examines the influences of race, ethnicity, gender, class, and disability on American literature Discusses the role of technology in book production and circulation, the rise of literacy, and changing reading practices and literary forms Explores a wide range of writings in multiple genres, including novels, short stories, dramas, and a variety of poetic forms, as well as autobiographies, essays, lectures, diaries, journals, letters, sermons, histories, and graphic narratives. Provides a thematic index that groups chapters by contexts and illustrates their links across different traditional chronological boundaries A Companion to American Literature is a valuable resource for students coming to the subject for the first time or preparing for field examinations, instructors in American literature courses, and scholars with more specialized interests in specific authors, genres, movements, or periods.

Author : Maureen Tuthill
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137597151

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Health and Sickness in the Early American Novel by Maureen Tuthill Pdf

This book is a study of depictions of health and sickness in the early American novel, 1787-1808. These texts reveal a troubling tension between the impulse toward social affection that built cohesion in the nation and the pursuit of self-interest that was considered central to the emerging liberalism of the new Republic. Good health is depicted as an extremely positive social value, almost an a priori condition of membership in the community. Characters who have the “glow of health” tend to enjoy wealth and prestige; those who become sick are burdened by poverty and debt or have made bad decisions that have jeopardized their status. Bodies that waste away, faint, or literally disappear off of the pages of America’s first fiction are resisting the conditions that ail them; as they plead for their right to exist, they draw attention to the injustice, apathy, and greed that afflict them.

Author : Stephen Carl Arch,Keat Murray
Publisher : Modern Language Association
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781603294928

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Approaches to Teaching the Novels of James Fenimore Cooper by Stephen Carl Arch,Keat Murray Pdf

A cosmopolitan author who spent nearly a decade in Europe and was versed in the works of his British and French contemporaries, James Fenimore Cooper was also deeply concerned with the America of his day and its history. His works embrace themes that have dominated American literature since: the frontier; the oppression of Native Americans by Europeans; questions of race, gender, and class; and rugged individualism, as represented by figures like the pirate, the spy, the hunter, and the settler. His most memorable character, Natty Bumppo, has entered into American popular culture. The essays in this volume offer students bridges to Cooper's novels, which grapple with complex moral issues that are still crucial today. Engaging with film adaptations, cross-culturalism, animal studies, media history, environmentalism, and Indigenous American poetics, the essays offer new ways to bring these novels to life in the classroom.

Author : Charles Brockden Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:B900125222

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Edgar Huntly; Or, The Sleep Walker by Charles Brockden Brown Pdf

This volume contains a complete edition of American author Charles Brockden Brown's 1799 novel, Edgar Huntly. The novel tells of Edgar Huntly, a young man who lives with his uncle and sisters on a small farm. Edgar is determined to learn who murdered his friend Waldegrave. When walking near the elm tree where Waldegrave was killed, Huntly sees Clithero, a servant from another farm, who is digging in the ground and weeping loudly. Huntly concludes that Clithero may be the murderer of his friend and follows him, soon discovering that he is sleep walking and hiding dark secrets.

Author : Rebecca Bullard,Rachel Carnell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107150461

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The Secret History in Literature, 1660-1820 by Rebecca Bullard,Rachel Carnell Pdf

This collection explores for the first time the importance of secret history in the literature of the long eighteenth century.

Author : Michael J. Drexler,Ed White
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781479888160

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The Traumatic Colonel by Michael J. Drexler,Ed White Pdf

In American political fantasy, the Founding Fathers loom large, at once historical and mythical figures. In The Traumatic Colonel, Michael J. Drexler and Ed White examine the Founders as imaginative fictions, characters in the specifically literary sense, whose significance emerged from narrative elements clustered around them. From the revolutionary era through the 1790s, the Founders took shape as a significant cultural system for thinking about politics, race, and sexuality. Yet after 1800, amid the pressures of the Louisiana Purchase and the Haitian Revolution, this system could no longer accommodate the deep anxieties about the United States as a slave nation. Drexler and White assert that the most emblematic of the political tensions of the time is the figure of Aaron Burr, whose rise and fall were detailed in the literature of his time: his electoral tie with Thomas Jefferson in 1800, the accusations of seduction, the notorious duel with Alexander Hamilton, his machinations as the schemer of a breakaway empire, and his spectacular treason trial. The authors venture a psychoanalytically-informed exploration of post-revolutionary America to suggest that the figure of "Burr" was fundamentally a displaced fantasy for addressing the Haitian Revolution. Drexler and White expose how the historical and literary fictions of the nation's founding served to repress the larger issue of the slave system and uncover the Burr myth as the crux of that repression. Exploring early American novels, such as the works of Charles Brockden Brown and Tabitha Gilman Tenney, as well as the pamphlets, polemics, tracts, and biographies of the early republican period, the authors speculate that this flourishing of political writing illuminates the notorious gap in U.S. literary history between 1800 and 1820.

Author : Daniel Vickers
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770480759

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The Autobiography of Ashley Bowen (1728-1813) by Daniel Vickers Pdf

The first American sailor known to write his own autobiography, Ashley Bowen remains a valuable storyteller who can speak to today's readers about the maritime world in the age of sail. Ashley Bowen began his seafaring career at the age of eleven. After leaving the sea, Bowen spent the rest of his days as a ship-rigger in Marblehead, Massachusetts. A witness to significant historical events, including the British conquest of Canada and the American Revolution, Ashley Bowen confounds today's audience with his eighteenth-century interpretation of events—an interpretation informed by his deeply religious beliefs and his suspicion of Yankee patriotism. The Broadview edition is the first to present the story of Ashley Bowen as a continuous narrative. Vickers' introduction provides the context for Bowen's life in colonial New England, and additional writings by Ashley Bowen and his Marblehead contemporaries are included. The appendices include Bowen's diary accounts of his experiences in the 1759 British expedition against Quebec, smallpox epidemics, and the American Revolution.

Author : Melissa M. Adams-Campbell
Publisher : Dartmouth College Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611688337

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New World Courtships by Melissa M. Adams-Campbell Pdf

Feminist literary critics have long recognized that the novel's marriage plot can shape the lives of women readers; however, they have largely traced the effects of this influence through a monolithic understanding of marriage. New World Courtships is the first scholarly study to recover a geographically diverse array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novels that actively compare marriage practices from the Atlantic world. These texts trouble Enlightenment claims that companionate marriage leads to women's progress by comparing alternative systems for arranging marriage and sexual relations in the Americas. Attending to representations of marital diversity in early transatlantic novels disrupts nation-based accounts of the rise of the novel and its relation to "the" marriage plot. It also illuminates how and why cultural differences in marriage mattered in the Atlantic world - and shows how these differences might help us to reimagine marital diversity today. This book will appeal to scholars of literature, women's studies, and early American history.