Common Things - Romance and the Aesthetics of Belonging in Atlantic Modernity

Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.

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James D. Lilley

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Focusing on the work of Horace Walpole, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Mackenzie, Washington Irving, Charles Brockden Brown, and Edgar Allan Poe, examines how the aesthetics of the romance novel influenced--and was influenced by--emerging modern systems of racial, national, sentimental, and political community.

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• Authors: James D Lilley, James D. Lilley
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2013
• EAN: 9780823255153
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-5515-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Commonalities; Commonalities
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies