Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830 : : Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money / / Erik Simpson.
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Simpson, Erik, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830 : Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money / Erik Simpson. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022] ©2010 1 online resource (208 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE -- Chapter 1 ORMOND’S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- Chapter 2 ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH -- Chapter 3 ‘A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET’: WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY -- Chapter 4 LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER’S REVOLUTION -- Chapter 5 THE BRAVOS OF VENICE -- EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790-1830, Erik Simpson proposes the mercenary as a meeting point of psychological, national, and ideological issues that connected the severed nations of Britain and America following the American Revolution.When writers treat the figure of the mercenary in literary works, the general issues of incentive, independence, and national service become intertwined with two of the well-known social developments of the period: an increased ability of young people to choose their spouses and the shift from patronage to commercial, market-based support of authorship. While the slave, a traditional focus of transatlantic studies, troubles the rhetoric of liberty through a lack of autonomy and consent, the mercenary raises questions about liberty by embodying its excess. Simpson argues that the mercenary of popular imagination takes monstrous advantage of modern freedoms by contracting away the ostensibly natural and foundational bonds of civil society.Substantial primary research underpins an argument with suggestive metaphorical and symbolic implications traced through a range of writing by Charles Brockden Brown, Charlotte Smith, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and James Fenimore Cooper. These writers present mercenary action with unusual complexity and self-awareness, reaching beyond propaganda to explore the problematic nature of the mercenary at the nexus of fighting, writing, and marrying for money. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) American literature 19th century History and criticism. English literature 18th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Mercenary troops in literature. Literary Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000 9783110780468 print 9780748636440 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748636457 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780748636457 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780748636457/original |
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Simpson, Erik, Simpson, Erik, Mercenaries in British and American Literature, 1790–1830 : Writing, Fighting, and Marrying for Money / Edinburgh Studies in Transatlantic Literatures : ESTLI Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE -- Chapter 1 ORMOND’S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- Chapter 2 ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH -- Chapter 3 ‘A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET’: WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY -- Chapter 4 LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER’S REVOLUTION -- Chapter 5 THE BRAVOS OF VENICE -- EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE -- Chapter 1 ORMOND’S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- Chapter 2 ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH -- Chapter 3 ‘A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET’: WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY -- Chapter 4 LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER’S REVOLUTION -- Chapter 5 THE BRAVOS OF VENICE -- EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION: MERCENARY, CONTRACTOR, VOLUNTEER, SLAVE -- Chapter 1 ORMOND’S FIGHTERS: AUTHORSHIP, SOLDIERING, AND THE TRANSATLANTIC CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN -- Chapter 2 ENCOUNTERING THE MERCENARY: NATIVE AMERICAN AUXILIARIES, THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, AND CHARLOTTE SMITH -- Chapter 3 ‘A GOOD ONE THOUGH RATHER FOR THE FOREIGN MARKET’: WALTER SCOTT, LORD BYRON, AND THE ROMANTIC MERCENARY -- Chapter 4 LOYALTY, INDEPENDENCE, AND JAMES FENIMORE COOPER’S REVOLUTION -- Chapter 5 THE BRAVOS OF VENICE -- EPILOGUE: MERCENARIES AND THE MODERN MILITARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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