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The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner | |
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About 397 pages (118,965 words) in 16 products |
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Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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 The Wide, Wide World Information
3,792 words, approx. 13 pages
 The Wide, Wide World is an 1852 novel by Susan Warner, published under the pseudonym Elizabeth Wetherell. It is often acclaimed as America's first bestseller, and has been both heralded and debated since its release as a landmark piece of feminist and... 
 Literary Criticism
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 Critical Essay by Jan L. Argersinger
12,162 words, approx. 41 pages
 In the following excerpt, Argersinger probes Warner's use of “authorial seduction” in The Wide, Wide World, a process of subtly eroticizing familial and power relations in the novel so as to draw in readers.
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Critical Essay by Sara E. Quay
9,868 words, approx. 33 pages
In the following essay, Quay relates Warner's use of nostalgia and loss in The Wide, Wide World to emerging nineteenth-century middle-class consumerism.
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Critical Essay by Suzanne M. Ashworth
9,471 words, approx. 32 pages
In the following excerpt, Ashworth explains the thematic significance of Ellen's voracious reading and finds that this characteristic is an important mechanism of identity construction in The Wide, Wide World.
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