Messing with romance American poetics and antebellum southern fiction /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Frankfurt am Main ; New York :
Peter Lang,
2012.
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| Serie: | Regensburger Arbeiten zur Anglistik und Amerikanistik,
Bd. 51 |
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Sommario:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. A catastrophic commencement: George Tucker's The valley of Shenandoah (1824)
- 3. Salvational hybridizations: John P. Kennedy's Swallow barn (1832)
- 4. Titling the balance: Kennedy's and Caruthers' historical romances (1834-45)
- 5. Sacrificing dialectics: William G. Simms's The partisan (1835)
- 6. From "romance" to real politics: Nathaniel B. Tucker's The partisan leader (1836)
- 7. The breaking point: "Romance" and the market revolution (1837-51)
- 8. From ethos to pathos: William G. Simms's Woodcraft (1852-54)
- 9. The "romance" of contingency: John E. Cooke's Virginia comedians (1854)
- 10. Conclusion.