Author: Robert S. LevinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Conspiracy Fears and the American Romance, 1789-1860
Author: Robert S. LevinePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
Conspiracy and Romance
Author: Robert S. LevinePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521366540
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the historical conditions of the culture. The fear that reputed conspiracies would subvert the order and integrity of the new nation were recurrent and widespread; Levine illuminates the influence of such fears on the works of major romance writers during this period.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
Guide to the Gothic
Author: Frederick S. FrankPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Gothic Fiction
Author: Frederick S. FrankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
A Bibliography of the English Novel from the Restoration to the French Revolution
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Salzburg, Austria : Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Annual Commencement
Author: Stanford UniversityMLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures
Author: Comprehensive Dissertation Index
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 936
Book Description
Vols. for 1973- include the following subject areas: Biological sciences, Agriculture, Chemistry, Environmental sciences, Health sciences, Engineering, Mathematics and statistics, Earth sciences, Physics, Education, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, History, Law & political science, Business & economics, Geography & regional planning, Language & literature, Fine arts, Library & information science, Mass communications, Music, Philosophy and Religion.