Conspiracy and Romance - Studies in Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, and Melville

Klappentext Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a 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. Zusammenfassung Robert Levine has examined the American romance in a 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. 'The defencelessness of her condition': Villainy and Vulnerability in Charles Brockden Brown's Ormond; 2. 'Souless Corporation;: Oligarchy and the Countersubversive Presence in James Fenimore Cooper's The Bravo; 3. 'A confusion of popish and protestant emblems': Insiders and Outsiders in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale Romance; 4. 'Follow you Leader': Captains and Mutineers in Herman Melville's Benito Cereno; Epilogue; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Robert S. Levine, Levine Robert S.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2009
• EAN: 9780521093408
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09340-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in American
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies