{"product_id":"lucinda-or-the-mountain-mourner-p-d-manvill-9780815632085","title":"Lucinda; Or, the Mountain Mourner","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1807, a small rural New York press published the first edition of P. D. Manville's \u003ci\u003eLucinda; or the Mountain Mourner. \u003c\/i\u003eOver the next five decades now fewer than ten printings of the novel appeared in three different states. In the book, the eponymous heroine is one of seven children left to the ailing and poverty-stricken widower Adrian Manvill. Although it is a memoir, \u003ci\u003eLucinda\u003c\/i\u003e reads like a sentimental epistolary novel, where the heroine is seduced, abandoned, and then dies in isolation shortly after her illegitimate child is born. Mischelle B. Anthony's critical edition rescues this once popular cautionary tale from obscurity and positions it among such classic early American narratives as\u003ci\u003e Charlotte Temple\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Coquette. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn her introduction, Anthony sheds light on the text's multiple functions among its nineteenth-century readership and draws attention to its unique status as a narrative written by a participant in the events.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e P. D. Manvill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0815632088\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780815632085\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Syracuse University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/22\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.14h x 5.44w x 0.56d","brand":"P. D. Manvill","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45481732931839,"sku":"9780815632085","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_197d0fbb-02f7-4cb6-a982-1ecabbbb639f.jpg?v=1715987512","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lucinda-or-the-mountain-mourner-p-d-manvill-9780815632085","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}