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The hidden hand, or, Capitola the Madcap

E.D.E.N. Southworth ; edited and with an introduction by Joanne Dobson

(American women writers series / Joanne Dobson, Judith Fetterley, and Elaine Showalter, series editors)

Rutgers University Press, c1988

  • : [cloth]
  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Hidden hand

Capitola the Madcap

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注記

Bibliography: p. xliii-xlv

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: [cloth] ISBN 9780813512952

内容説明

E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions. When we first meet sharp and witty Capitola she is living among beggars and street urchins, and dressed as a boy because a boy can get work and be safe, whereas a girl is left to starve for want of "proper" employment. Unknown to her, Capitola has a very rich elderly guardian who finds her at a providential moment and takes her back to his palatial mansion where she finds herself "decomposing above ground for want of having my blood stirred." But not to fear. There are bandits, true-loves, evil men, long-lost mothers, and sweet women friends in Capitola's future - not to mention thunder storms, kidnap attempts, and duels. The pace is fast, the action wonderfully unbelievable. This is escape literature at its nineteenth-century best, with a woman at its center who makes you feel strong, daring, and reckless.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780813512969

内容説明

E.D.E.N. Southworth was one of the most popular and prolific writers of the nineteenth century and her Capitola Black, or Black Cap - a cross-dressing, adventure-seeking girl-woman - was so well-loved that the book was serialized three times between 1859 and 1888 and was dramatized in forty different versions. When we first meet sharp and witty Capitola she is living among beggars and street urchins, and dressed as a boy because a boy can get work and be safe, whereas a girl is left to starve for want of "proper" employment. Unknown to her, Capitola has a very rich elderly guardian who finds her at a providential moment and takes her back to his palatial mansion where she finds herself "decomposing above ground for want of having my blood stirred." But not to fear. There are bandits, true-loves, evil men, long-lost mothers, and sweet women friends in Capitola's future - not to mention thunder storms, kidnap attempts, and duels. The pace is fast, the action wonderfully unbelievable. This is escape literature at its nineteenth-century best, with a woman at its center who makes you feel strong, daring, and reckless.

目次

Acknowledgments Introduction Notes to Introduction Selected Bibliography A Note on the Text The Hidden Hand Explanatory Notes

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BA39517846
  • ISBN
    • 0813512956
    • 0813512964
  • LCCN
    87022932
  • 出版国コード
    us
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    New Brunswick
  • ページ数/冊数
    xlvi, 498 p.
  • 大きさ
    23 cm
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