| #2722450 in Books | 2016-05-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.53 x5.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 280 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Thwarted love in 1812 America|By Patto|Early American novels are well worth looking into. Particularly since there seem to be so few in print. They give us a picture of daily life at the personal level, as well as the values and even the humor of the times. Kelroy takes us inside high society in and around Philadelphia.
The basic plot revolves around a mother determi||| “Betsy Klimasmith’s richly informed edition of Rebecca Rush’s Kelroy will go far toward restoring the novel to its rightful place as one of the most accomplished of early American novels. Situating Rush’s work in the broad fi
Kelroy, a nearly-forgotten 1812 novel by Rebecca Rush, combines the refinement of the novel of manners with the Gothic novel’s hidden evil to tell the story of the star-crossed lovers Emily Hammond and the romantic Kelroy, whose romance is doomed by the machinations of Emily’s mother. Set in the elite world of Philadelphia’s Atlantic Rim society, Kelroy transcends the genre of sentimental romance to expose the financial pressures that motiv...
You easily download any file type for your gadget.Kelroy (Broadview Editions) | Rebecca Rush. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
