The Orphan Angel (Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Elinor Morton Hoyt
- First Published: 1926
- Type of Plot: Historical romance
- Time of Work: July 8, 1822, to May, 1823
- Setting: Italy, the Atlantic Ocean, and North America
- Principal Characters: Shiloh, David Butternut
- Genres: Long fiction, Historical fiction
- Subjects: North America or North Americans, Nineteenth century, Idealism, Adventure, Frontier or pioneer life
- Locales: Oceans, Italy, North America
The Novel
The Orphan Angel combines elements of the historical romance and picaresque novel by bringing back to life, on the day he died, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and setting him on a quest across the United States to rescue a young woman.
The novel is divided into ten chapters, each of which is titled with a quotation from Shelley. The first chapter, “Western Wave,” pairs the Shelley character, named Shiloh, with David Butternut, a young, kind, but unsophisticated New England sailor. This chapter recounts the fantastic premise on which the...
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