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<p>From the acclaimed cultural historian Philip F. Gura comes <i>Truth's Ragged Edge</i>, a comprehensive and original history of the American novel's first century. Grounded in Gura's extensive consideration of the diverse range of important early novels, not just those that remain widely read today, this book recovers many long-neglected but influential writers—such as the escaped slave Harriet Jacobs, the free black Philadelphian Frank J. Webb, and the irrepressible John Neal—to paint a complete and authoritative portrait of the era. Gura also gives us the key to understanding what sets the early novel apart, arguing that it is distinguished by its roots in "the fundamental religiosity of American life." Our nation's pioneering novelists, it turns out, wrote less in the service of art than of morality.<br><br>This history begins with a series of firsts: the very first American novel, William Hill Brown's <i>The Power of Sympathy</i>, published in 1789; the first bestsellers, Susanna Rowson's <i>Charlotte Temple </i>and Hannah Webster Foster's <i>The Coquette</i>, novels that were, like Brown's, cautionary tales of seduction and betrayal; and the first native genre, religious tra

Author

Philip F. Gura

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781429951340