false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178492910m/800660.jpg 800660 7 Harriet Beecher Stowe's domestic comedy is a powerful examination of slavery, Protestant theology, and gender differences in early America. <br> <br>First published in 1859, and set in eighteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, <i>The Minister's Wooing</i> is a historical novel and domestic comedy that satirizes Calvinism, celebrating its intellectual and moral integrity while critiquing its rigid theology. Mary Scudder lives with her widowed mother in a modest middle-class home. Dr. Hopkins, a Calvinist minister who boards with them, is dedicated to helping the slaves arriving at Newport and calls for the abolition of slavery. The pious Mary admires him but is also in love with the passionate but skeptical James Marvyn who, hungry for adventure, joins the crew of a ship setting sail for exotic destinations. When James is presumed lost at sea, Mary fears for his soul, and consents to marry the good Doctor. With important insights on slavery, history, and gender, as well as characters based on historical figures, <i>The Minister's Wooing</i> is, as Susan Harris notes in her Introduction, "an historical novel, like Hawthorne's <i>The Scarlet Letter</i> or Catharine Sedgwick's <i>Hope Leslie</i> or <i>A New England Tale</i>; it is an attempt through fiction to create a moral, intellectual, and affective history for New England." 888367 1978 The Minister's Wooing (Penguin Classics) total:32|5:7|4:10|3:12|2:2|1:1| 32 116 57 5 5 2 false false Sat Jun 21 19:19:21 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 19:27:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false true Mon Jul 28 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Feb 17 23:18:46 -0800 2008 Mon Jul 28 21:31:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 10 20:07:58 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 10 20:10:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Oct 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 22 09:27:28 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 07:59:32 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:48:04 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 14:48:04 -0700 2009
Stowe has a way of making life seem musical and writing about it in a way that is not too cheesey. I liked that. ]]> 0 0 false false Fri Oct 16 16:27:17 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 16 16:27:17 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Sep 22 11:57:13 -0700 2009 Tue Sep 22 11:57:13 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 31 18:02:11 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 31 18:02:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Aug 29 10:28:27 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 10:28:27 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Aug 10 06:52:24 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 06:52:24 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 06 09:45:41 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 06 09:45:41 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jul 22 15:20:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 15:20:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Jun 04 13:08:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 04 13:08:06 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun May 31 19:35:03 -0700 2009 Sun May 31 19:35:03 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat May 30 19:09:08 -0700 2009 Sat May 30 19:09:08 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat May 16 03:32:36 -0700 2009 Thu May 14 12:03:24 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 03:32:36 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Mon Apr 20 08:44:45 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 20 08:44:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 24 14:08:38 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 24 14:08:38 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Mar 10 12:26:36 -0700 2009 Tue Mar 10 12:26:36 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jan 09 19:43:16 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 09 19:43:20 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=800660