The Romance of Real Life : Charles Brockden Brown and the Origins of American Culture /

The Romance of Real Life shows how a sensitive, prolific writer confronted, wrestled with, and ultimately promoted the emergence of a liberal society in nineteenth-century America.

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Main Author: Watts, Steven, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Novel and the Market in the Early Republic
  • 2. The Lawyer and the Rhapsodist
  • 3. The Young Artist as Social Visionary
  • 4. The Major Novels (I): Fiction and Fragmentation
  • 5. The Major Novels (II): Deception and Disintegration
  • 6. The Writer as Bourgeois Moralist
  • 7. The Writer and the Liberal Ego.