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Title: CompiledStudentEssaysPage26
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Text: the mysterious author of the manuscript, called James Noyes on the title page. Some of the most notable writers of eighteenth—century America were none other than the “Founding Fathers.” Men such as Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and James Madison, with their works entitled Notes on the State of Virginia (1785), Poor Richard's A/manack (1732-58), and The Federalist Papers (1787-88), all wrote well

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Text: fictional stories at the end of their writings. Fictional stories and novels in early America provided a new scope of reading. With fiction, news stories could be presented in new ways and grow into new genres. As we have found with such popular novels as Emma Corbett, Susanna Rowson’s Charlotte Temple (1791), and Hannah Webster Foster's The Coquette (1797), narratives that followed fictional lives

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Text: Finding Fiction in Unexpected Places at the Turn of the 19th Century Amy Cantrall The pages of The Lucubrator are filled with advice, opinions, and contemplations about life. The very last essay casts a different tone: one of fiction, as it contains all the elements of storytelling. The story, dated as being written on August 25, 1797, is of the narrator coming across a hurt man on the road

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Text: : specifically, his two published essay collections, Winter Evenings; or, Lucubrations on Life and Letters (London 1788; New York 1805) and Essays Moral and Literary (London, 1778; Philadelphia 1792). Winter Evenings covers a variety of subjects just as does The Lucubrator. Besides having the word “lucubrator” in their titles, both works have a table of contents that lay out similar topics of interest

Title: CompiledStudentEssaysPage21
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Text: examine—“A Humorous Ta|e” and “On the Probability of Future Rewards and Punishments”—are not instructive. Because the latter short tale does not have a proper ending, it is unknown whether or not the author intended for a moral lesson or some sort of warning as the title implies. This is why I believe these fictions are of a different kind than we find in contemporary novels. They are used solely for the purpose of surprising and entertaining readers who expect advice and meditations in The Lucubrator and weather reports in the almanac. Perhaps, in these short fictions, we can see one moment in the evolution of American fiction. If the author of “On the Probability of Future Rewards and Punishments” had turned the tale into a novel, I believe he or she would have written it in a single narrative voice, as was becoming popular during the period of the manuscript’s creation. From here on out, fictional storytelling (including short stories and novels alike) would only expand and develop further.

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Text: Works Cited Noyes, James. An Astromonical Diary or A/manack, for the Year of Christian Aera, 1797. Dover: 1796. America ’s Historical Imprints. Web. 29 Apr. 2016. Noyes, James. Lucubrator. N.d. MS. University of Missouri, n.p. Noyes, James. The Federal Arithmetic; Or, A Compendium of the Most Useful Rules of That Science, Adapted to the Currency of the United States. For the Use of Schools

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Text: production of his leisure hours.” Perhaps the author of the manuscript thought, too, that Iucubrations were too private or personal for pubHcaUon.

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