Steven Epley

Standard Name: Epley, Steven

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Literary responses Susanna Haswell Rowson
Charlotte Temple has received a great deal of recent critical attention. Steven Epley has discerned a possible connection with Inkle and Yarico (which he classes as folk legend).
Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol.
38
, No. 2, pp. 200-22.
Going behind George Colman 's stage version...
Reception Susanna Haswell Rowson
She was one of the twenty-four most-reviewed women writers of 1789-90.
Hawkins, Ann R., and Stephanie Eckroth, editors. Romantic Women Writers Reviewed. Vol. 3 vols., Ashgate Publishing Company.
Before the recent revival of interest in women's writing, however, she was remembered almost exclusively as the author of Charlotte Temple, that is...
Textual Features Susanna Haswell Rowson
Steven Epley finds Eumea reminiscent of the native woman betrayed in Inkle and Yarico, and that the Irishman is used, like Trudge in Colman 's version of that story, to demonstrate the superiority of...
Textual Production Susanna Haswell Rowson
Two copies are known to survive, at the British Library and at Harvard . Critic Steven Epley assigns this poem to her in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, though the English Short Title...

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Epley, Steven. “Alienated, Betrayed, and Powerless: A Possible Connection between Charlotte Temple and the Legend of Inkle and Yarico”. Papers on Language and Literature, Vol.
38
, No. 2, pp. 200-22.
Epley, Steven. “Susanna Rowson’s Bible Abridgement and Its Relationship to Her Most Famous Novel”. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) Conference, Boston, MA.