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Pictures of Charlotte: The Illustrated Charlotte Temple and Her Readers
- Author(s):
- Spencer Keralis (see profile)
- Date:
- 2010
- Group(s):
- CLCS 18th-Century, CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century, LLC 19th-Century American, LLC Early American, TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
- Subject(s):
- American literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- book history, illustrated books
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6C32B
- Abstract:
- The author examines the contribution of illustrated editions of Susannah Rowson's 1791 novel Charlotte Temple to the novel's curious afterlife. Reprinted in Philadelphia in 1794, Charlotte Temple became the object of a readerly cult that inspired visits to a gravesite in Trinity Churchyard as well as intimate engagements with the material object of the book itself. Through the author's analysis of portraits and tableaux illustrations that appeared in the novel between 1809 and 1905, along with evidence of readers' devotional interactions with the portraits, the author traces the integration of Charlotte Temple into the American national story as one of the best-loved icons of the Revolution.
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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