The Bestselling Novel: Currents in American History and Culture Main Menu Introduction Intersectionality and Power Relations in Bestsellerism An intersectional analysis of the concepts of gender, race and power relationships, highlighting how the overlap between these concepts fueled the novels’ rise as bestsellers. Slavery Beyond Chains The Variation of the Forms of Slavery Inflicted on Charlotte in Susanna Rowson's _Charlotte Temple_ and Dana in Octavia Butler's _Kindred_. Perception of Women in Society Inspecting the ways in which the woman’s default “doomed” status can be blamed on the society's narrow perception of women in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Edith Wharton's House of Mirth. Gendered Violence and Racism: The Short End of the Stick The Struggle of the Black Woman Across the Centuries Brief summaries of course texts

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29761 Perception of Women in Society Inspecting the ways in which the woman’s default “doomed” status can be blamed on the society's narrow perception of women in Susanna Rowson's Charlotte Temple and Edith Wharton's House of Mirth.

Butler, Octavia E. Kindred. Beacon Press, 2009.

 

Coats, Lauren. “Grave Matters: Susanna Rowson’s Sentimental Geographies.” Charlotte Temple: A Norton Critical Edition. 1st ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 2011. 327-349. 
 

Ochberg, Frank M. “Stockholm Syndrome.” The Gazette, vol. A25, 2005, p. 25.

Psycho. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, performance by Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh and Vera Miles, Universal Pictures, 1960.
 

Rowson. Susanna. Charlotte Temple. 1794. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2011.

 

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