Conspiracy Fears and the American Romance, 1789-1860
Author : Robert S. Levine
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1981
Category : American fiction
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Author : Robert S. Levine
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Page : 534 pages
File Size : 24,32 MB
Release : 1981
Category : American fiction
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Author : Robert S. Levine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 12,19 MB
Release : 1989-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521366540
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.
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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Author : Frederick S. Frank
Publisher : Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 30,84 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Literary Criticism
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Page : 604 pages
File Size : 40,75 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Dissertation abstracts
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Author : Frederick S. Frank
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,19 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Robert Ignatius Letellier
Publisher : Salzburg, Austria : Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
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Author : Stanford University
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Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 1978
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Page : 936 pages
File Size : 22,62 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Dissertations, Academic
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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.
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Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Languages, Modern
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