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Author Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867, author.

Title Married or single? / Catharine Maria Sedgwick ; edited and with an introduction by Deborah Gussman.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers
Legacies of nineteenth-century American women writers.
Note Originally published: New York : Harper, 1857.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Summary "Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick's final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America's first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women's right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood and offers readers a wider range of options for women in society, recognizing their need and ability to determine the course of their lives. Sedgwick's touching, witty, and shrewdly observant novel centers on Grace Herbert, a New York City socialite who must negotiate the marriage market and also learn to develop her own character and take control of her own destiny. The story merges a wide range of popular American literary forms--including the seduction novel, the conversion narrative, the novel of education, and social reform fiction--and provides a window on many of the cultural and political anxieties of the 1850s beyond marriage, including immigration, slavery, and urban poverty. Sedgwick's lifelong concern with women's duties to the nation as citizens is demonstrated through her depiction of exemplary women of various backgrounds and circumstances who illustrate the idea that becoming a worthy human being is more important than becoming a wife, especially in a democratic society. "-- Provided by publisher.
"Nineteenth-century novel that redefines the role of women in marriage, singlehood, and the working world of America in the 1850s"-- Provided by publisher.
Note Print version record.
Contents Cover ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Contents ; Acknowledgments; Editor's Introduction; A Note on the Text; Married or Single?; Notes
Subject Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.
Self-realization in women -- Fiction.
Sex role -- Fiction.
Social role -- Fiction.
Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction.
FICTION / Literary.
FICTION / Historical.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies.
FICTION / Psychological.
Choice (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00858327
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women. (OCoLC)fst01741869
Self-realization in women. (OCoLC)fst01111914
Sex role. (OCoLC)fst01114598
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Social role. (OCoLC)fst01122857
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Domestic fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Psychological fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726481
Added Author Gussman, Deborah, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Sedgwick, Catharine Maria, 1789-1867. Married or single? 9780803271920 (DLC) 2015001005 (OCoLC)894747644
ISBN 9780803274990 (electronic bk.)
0803274998 (electronic bk.)
9780803274976 (electronic bk.)
0803274971 (electronic bk.)
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