The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel : : Reading the Atlantic World-System / / Stephen Shapiro.

Taking his cue from Philadelphia-born novelist Charles Brockden Brown's Annals of Europe and America, which contends that America is shaped most noticeably by the international struggle between Great Britain and France for control of the world trade market, Stephen Shapiro charts the advent, de...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
©2007
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Method and Misperception: The Paradigm Problem of the Early American Novel
  • 2. The Geoculture of the Anglo-French Eighteenth-Century World-System
  • 3. The Re-export Republic and the Rise of the Early American Novel
  • 4. The Paradox of the Public Sphere: Franklin's Autobiography and the Institution of Ideology
  • 5. Wieland and the Problem of Counterinstitutionality
  • 6. Arthur Mervyn and the Racial Revolution of Narrative Consciousness
  • Afterword: Early Nineteenth-Century American Studies and the World-Systems Perspective
  • Bibliography
  • Index